Protesting students’ anger is justified, Julius Malema says
'An equal society can be created through offering free, decolonised, quality education’
EFF leader Julius Malema says students will remain angry until they receive free education. Reacting to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s medium-term budget policy statement on Wednesday‚ Malema said the students’ anger was justified. "They were promised free education in 1994 and the ANC owes it to this generation to deliver free education." He denied that his party was behind these protests. "We must stop this thing of shifting the goal post and wanting to accuse other people for our own failures. The ANC must take full responsibility and continue to look for money and call for national dialogue where concrete proposals will be made," Malema said. "It is not going to go away [protests]; it will happen year in and year out until free education is delivered. We are part of the protest on free education because we believe that an equal society can be created through offering free, decolonised, quality education." Malema said Gordhan was being "dealt" with and the EFF would be part of...
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