LINDIWE MAZIBUKO: How students can win the Fees Must Fall fight
I HAD the privilege last week of participating in the inaugural Robben Island Dialogues, a series of discussions about inclusivity in SA’s economy and society, convened by Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane.The audience was primarily made up of young people — some still at high school, others representing civil society organisations for the youth, and a large number of participants from Cape Town’s main university campuses, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and the University of Cape Town (UCT).The series is an effort by Ndungane to kick-start an intergenerational conversation between those who worked to secure SA’s transition from repression to democracy, and the young people who will inherit their legacy — whether it is good or bad.With the 2016 Fees Must Fall protests high on the agenda, there was a palpable sense of anger from the young people in the room, many of whom expressed their disillusionment with the generation that came before them.References to ...
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