Provincial premier David Makhura says loss of academic year would be a disaster
Losing the academic year would be disastrous, Gauteng premier David Makhura told Business Day in an interview. Gauteng, the country’s economic hub, has most of the country’s higher education institutions, which include the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Pretoria, the University of Johannesburg, the University of SA’s main campus and the Tshwane University of Technology. Since Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that universities would be allowed to increase fees for the 2017 academic year up to 8%, the #FeesMustFall movement has responded by stregnthening its resolve and intensifying its countrywide protests. Some university campuses have turned into no-go zones because of continued clashes between police, private security and students. There have been two reported deaths so far and a rape, which have lead to calls that some sort of truce should be struck before the situation deteriorates any further. "As a former student leader and also as the pre...
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