>
>Fellow Comrades
>
> The current developments in our Institutions of Higher
> Learning is a
> depiction of challenges of education exclusivity at its
> best.
>
> The reality of the matter is that we demand free education
> but we have
> not yet confronted a critical question of COST IN
> EDUCATION.
>
>
>
> According to Behaviorist people learn when they think it is
> worthwhile
> to do so. Key questions of what make people resist to
> learn?
>
>
>
> It has been researched that it may be caused by Lack of
> motivation, lack
> of ability or aptitude, poor teaching and lastly the cost
> of education.
> The latter in my view is an aire-borne disease that is
> bringing our
> Country, Our Government, Our Education system into
> disrepute.
>
>
>
> South Africa has been sitting on a gauntlet that have found
> a window to
> explode due to the high fees demanded by often reactionary
> led
> institutions and living large salaries paid to top
> management at the
> expense of Students and Workers who often than not become
> weakened by
> the powers that be.
>
> The case in point is the 2008 disruptions in North West and
> the current
> chaos ripping Durban University of Technology Steve
> Biko's Campus.
>
>
>
> Students by law are part of the Institution's Council
> and arguments are
> always raised to say 'They" were part of the
> decisions to increase the
> salaries of managers and/or tuition fees, which in my view
> becomes
> irrelevant.
>
>
>
> The poverty levels does not afford majority blacks; and
> (whites) as
> poverty crosses the racial lines in our country, a free
> passage to study
> at Institutions of Higher Learning
>
>
>
> What is our starting point?
>
>
>
> The ANC POLOKWANE Conference resolved:
>
>
>
> * To focus rigorously on the quality of education
> * To place FET's Colleges at the centre of a popular
> drive to
> transfer skills to our people including by providing these
> institutions
> with more resources, and scaling up dedicated bursary
> schemes to
> popularize and subsidise attendance at FET institutions.
>
>
>
> And further the ANC 2009 ELECTION MANIFESTO pronounces
> amongst others;
>
> * To make education the priority of all.
> * To improve the quality of schooling.
> * Revive the role of state-owned enterprises in skills
> development
> and training.
> * Encourage students from the working class and poor
> communities
> to go to tertiary institutions by reviewing and improving
> NSFAS.
>
>
>
> Emanating from the crisis currently, it is indeed
> regrettable to start
> this historic year 2009;a year of ANC consolidation of mass
> support in
> that state of affairs but the Bottom line should be; the
> Student are the
> future leaders of the country and the authors of solution
> of the
> struggles of their lifetime. Our call as activists is to
> strengthen
> COSAS, SASCO, YCL, ANCYL and other student progressive
> movement to put
> at the centre the unpacking of these challenges to
> consolidate the
> vision of South Africa with better opportunities for all.
>
>
>
> It has always been argued by SACP, COSATU, ANC that so we
> need to place
> education as a societal concern including in tertiary
> institutions. We
> need to develop skills to change the growth path
> characterized by;
> Furthering an education system for the few rich children,
> High poverty
> levels for the majority poor and del-ink growth and
> development
>
>
>
>
>
> We must ask what caliber of Institutions Council do we put
> in place to
> entrench the transformation agenda is not derailed by
> shallow battle for
> resources these institutions have and comprise the key
> responsibility of
> skilling our people. We shall forever not forget what is
> currently
> happening in UNISA; where of late it has become a platform
> to comprise
> the independence of the institutions by operating on party
> lines
> especially the Vice Chancellor.
>
>
>
> Education shall ever remain an engine for human development
> and a key to
> nurture the potentials of our future, young people. Our
> failure to
> navigate on all these challenges will be a failure to
> provide solutions
> for the revolutionary gains our martyrs, stalwarts, heroes
> and heroines
> fought for and achieved in the fifteen years of our ANC-LED
> GOVERNMENT.
>
>
>
> Lenin called it 'pressure from below and pressure from
> above'
>
>
>
> We dare not fail this revolutionary duty
>
> It is not yet Uhuru!!!
>
> Mampane Norman
>
> (POPCRU National Educator writing in his personal capacity)
>
> Cell:0720737959
>
> Auckland Park
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