Nhlanhla Nene says parents must help to solve fees crisis ‘amicably’
The former finance minister says parents of students must be prepared to pay more taxes in order to raise the money, or forfeit ‘some of the nice projects’ SA wants
FORMER finance minister Nhlanhla Nene says South Africans must be prepared either to pay more taxes or forfeit "nice projects" in order to raise university fees for poor students. "The battles the students are fighting are our battles. The money is not only with the Treasury. It is for all of us to come together. Ultimately if the nation pays, the money will have to be found among ourselves," Nene said. He was speaking on Tuesday at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), where he was a panelist in a discussion hosted by the GIBS ethics and governance think tank. Across the country protests by students calling for free education under the Fees Must Fall campaign entered a third day on Wednesday. Violence erupted at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and classes were disrupted at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria on Tuesday. In Pietermaritzburg, students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal have marched to the provincial legislature, refusing to accept a pro...
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