Bruce's List
Hard lessons from violent student protests
As a newspaper editor you always have to be careful of the juxtapositions that can sometimes occur on your pages. The worst kind are news stories about, say, blood diamonds appearing on the same page as a large De Beers advert. Today’s Business Day has a minor one on its front page where it enjoins us under its Great Reads teaser at the top of the page to read Aubrey Matshiqi’s “Fees Must Fall is a struggle for a civilised SA”, while two columns to the right is the paper’s big page one photograph of a FeesMustFall protester clambering over the desks of students who wanted to learn but whose lecture had been broken up. Let us all pray that some progress can occur soon, allowing students to complete their degrees. A country that can’t give them that is a basket case.Of course, I understand perfectly what Matshiqi means and he is a most civilised and gracious man, but the picture on the page captures an act of rage and brutality and arrogance that spells real trouble for SA. The guy on...
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