Comrades, There is need for all parents, educators and academics to stand up and be united to defend the education and future of our children and future generations to come in the ongoing education crisis affecting the education of the African child. The time is now or never! Enough is enough! There is a great need for parents to intervene in the stalemate at the institutions of higher learning in our country. All parents should show solidarity with the ongoing student struggles. Students are in this struggle for us as parents because they know their parents cannot afford another fee increase. Currently, parents cannot afford to pay fees now, let alone an increase no matter is 1% or below 8%. Some of the parents are still paying the student debts they incurred in thier days in those universities. The student debt is now generational. Students are calling for 0% fees for their parents, not just o% fee increase. They are calling for their parents' university debt to go too. That is, free education the current students and their parents were promised by those in power.
Comrades, the ongoing #FeesMustFall Campaign unfolding in our institutions is the continuation of the student struggles we waged during our time as students at the same institutions of higher learning as early as in the 1980s up to the late 1990s, up to today fighting for the transformation and decolonisation of the same universities together with some of the current arrogant government officials, university authorities and business leaders, for example, the Minisrter of Higher Education, Blade Ndzimande and Wits Vice-Chancellor, Prof Habib, Zuma's spokesperson, Bongani Ngqulunga and many more who were all with us in the trenches at the University of Durban. They know what what students are talking about. they were at the forefront of students' struggles at UND and UDW in those days. Today, they have crossed the floor to the enemy camp and joined the white capital. Let's prick their conscience and remind them about their promise to the African child. The current students' struggle is being hijacked by other forces because they did not keep their promises to students after joniing the governing structures. The fact that the current students' struggles face the danger of being hijacked, just like the whole Liberation Movement was been hijacked in 1955, does not change the fact that today's students' struggles are legitimate and just. All legitimate and just struggles throughout the world are being hijacked every day .There is nothing new to the current "#FeesMustFall" Campaign. But, still, the wheel of revolution keeps on turning and will continue to turn for generations to come. Comrades in those institutions, government and business circles all know the "#FeesMustFall" Campaign is not a new struggle. It is the continuation of the struggle they started at the universities while they were still students and lecturers there. It is a fight to achieve what the Freedom Charter promised the African nation that *'The doors of learning shall be opened to all.' * What happened to their Freedom Charter they advocated so eloquently at those universities during their student days? They must answer these questions. They must remember:The wheel of revolution is turning and will continue to turn, with or without them. They are now parents and leaders. They have a choice. They can either join other parents and defend the future of the African children or stand on their way and oppose them. Other African leaders before them made their choice in the past. They chose to be either African martyrs or stooges of the enemies of the African people. It is their choice even now. Comrades, parents are coming together tomorrow at 08:00 in Soweto University of Johannesburg (UJ) to picket to show solidarity to the ongoing students' "#FeesMustFall" Campaign. Let's support their call. Those who want to join or want to ask their parents to join the picketing, please contact Cleopatra at 0727394122 for more details. We are not the organisers of this picketing. We do not knoow the details yet. We just appreciate the courage and initiative of the parents in Soweto. Aluta Continua! Viva comrade Cleopatra and other parents! Africa will remember you! Let's do the same in all universities closure to where we live. We cannot continue folding our arms as parents while the future of our children and generations to come is at stake; while our children are under attack; while our children exposed to many dangers now that they kicked out the universities parents sent their children to them study safely in good hands of other parents running those institutions. As parents we sent those students at those institutions to study, not to fight for us, as parents. Let's take over our load from them and fight for free education of our children as parents while students remain in classes. I am also referring to ANC General Secretary, Gwede Mantashe, Minister Blade Ndzimande, Zuma's spokesperson, Bongani Ngqulunga, former Tshwane Mayor, Sputla, current Gauteng Premier, David Makura and Eastern Cape Premier. The list is endless. They are all parents with kids at institutions of learning who fought for free education in the past. I mention the few who were together with us in the trenches in those days. They must be clear where they stand now that they are in power: with the people or the enemy? The progrmme will expose them. Sobukwe said, *asazani sikwazana edabini *(we do not know each other. We will know each other in the struggle). Comrades, there is great possibility that lesser number of new students will be admitted at our universities next year. The ongoing crisis does not only affect current students at those universities. It also affect even those who are still to be born.Its consequences are generational. We cannot allow that to happen because of those former liberators turned oppressors. *Parents: * *“Rise like lions after slumber, * *In unvanquishable numbers. * *Shake your chain to earth like dew, * *Which in sleep had fallen on you. * *Ye are many - they are few.” * ---The Mask of Anarchy Izwe Lethu! Charge-in Mabaso 0710203554 -- -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
