LETTER: Zuma has failed to address student protests in a meaningful way
The Academy of Science of SA has issued a stern warning that the country is facing the prospect of "permanent and irreversible damage" to its higher education system, unless the chronic crisis unfolding in this sector is urgently resolved. It stated that our higher educational institutions represent decades of cumulative investment and are looked up to throughout Africa and the rest of the world. They are nevertheless fragile. If they are profoundly weakened and destabilised, the future damage to our sociopolitical system and economy could lead to the failure of the National Development Plan (report by Bernadette Wolhuter in The Mercury "Permanent damage looms", October 17.) It is submitted that the Fees Must Fall protest that has engulfed virtually all our institutions of higher learning is not merely an educational crisis restricted to tertiary education, but a crisis of national proportions and must be treated as such. It is estimated that it has involved the violent destruction ...
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