Of course the doors of learning shall be open to all,” in 1955 so proclaimed the Freedom Charter. Our Bill of Rights and the Constitution has endorsed this call, for it is in that document where the rights to education that it is now a justiciable socioeconomic right. That we should be at each other’s throats for the realisation of this right 22 years on, since a free South Africa was established, is a terrible indictment on our public policy. I applaud our youth, and students in particular, for reminding us and reminding society in general that our constitutional promise cannot be negotiated away. A promise made is a promise kept, and that should be our mantra.You remind me of my engagement 40 years ago with many of my fellow learners in the struggle for equal education. It was a battle against [the] apartheid system itself for a free South Africa, which we have now attained. Many died in that struggle, others were maimed, and yet many more lost their youth and education. Many of ...
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