Bruce's List
PETER BRUCE: When will students learn?
Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.Students from Wits University turned up at the Chamber of Mines in Johannesburg yesterday to hand over a memorandum calling on the mining industry to help fund tertiary education, to twist government’s arm to increase university funding, and form some sort of social compact with the universities (which are already heavily funded by mining companies but let’s not let the facts get in the way of a good protest). They also demanded that South African companies stop listing abroad, which probably had more to do with the NUM delegation that accompanied the students. Nonetheless, once more, students have demonstrated their muddled thinking. Instead of getting the chamber to focus on one thing, they present a list of things, and in the end they’ll all be ignored. The students should know, anyway, that the Chamber of Mines feels the same way about government that they do. The ANC has ruined the mining industry without transforming it and it is i...
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