AS THE Fees Must Fall protests rage on at universities across the country, Peter Bruce and the panel of editors ask whether the movement is raising deeper inequality issues in the country. Also on the show this week: SA’s oversubscribed investor conference in New York and outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s face-off with President Jacob Zuma a few days before the end of her tenure. Financial Mail editor Rob Rose says it is imperative that students return to class to complete the academic year. "It needs to be finished because otherwise everything grinds to a halt; it sends the country back by a year so that needs to happen." He says students may have miscalculated the amount of time they had to protest before classes could resume in order to finish the academic year. What these protests have brought to the fore is a growing dissatisfaction among South Africans of the inequalities and injustices affecting them, Rose says. Business Times editor Ron Derby says protesting studen...
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