HIGHER EDUCATION
Report on fees for students not yet with Zuma
The report has missed its submission deadline to the Presidency by nearly two months
President Jacob Zuma has not received the eagerly awaited fees commission report, which has missed its submission deadline to the Presidency by nearly two months. Presidency spokesman Bongani Ngqulunga confirmed on Monday that the commission’s report had not yet landed on Zuma’s desk. "The Presidency has not yet received the final report. It is up to the commission to do the handover and they will decide when that is," Ngqulunga said. Students, who are preparing for third-term exams, expect the final report in two weeks. Thabo Moloja, president of the South African Students Congress, which is aligned to the ANC, said the organisation accepted that the report was late, but expected it to be made public at the end of August. "The ANC pronounced in its policy conference and lekgotla that [it is] … going to implement free education from 2018 and we expect nothing less than that," Moloja said. The commission, chaired by retired Judge Jonathan Arthur Heher, began its work in 2016 and was ...
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