DA urges minister Hlengiwe Mkhize to act to prevent campus violence
The DA has called on Higher Education and Training Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize to intervene in the registration processes at higher education institutions, to prevent them descending into chaos. This follows what it calls President Jacob Zuma’s "reckless" announcement of free higher education for the poor and the EFF’s "inflammatory" call for academically eligible students to present themselves for registration for 2018 at the higher education institutions of their choice. The DA’s spokesperson on higher education and training, professor Belinda Bozzoli, said both Zuma and Mkhize had failed to provide strong leadership and the DA called on Mkhize to "decisively" intervene "in order to avoid a potentially violent crisis". Bozzoli said: "Mkhize must now provide an unequivocal stance on whether she supports Zuma’s announcement of free education and what her department intends to do to mitigate against registration processes turning violent. "Zuma’s announcement was ostensibly made without...
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