Morning Star.png South Africa: COSATU Tells Students to Beware Opportunists The Morning Star, London, 19 January 2016 South Africa's biggest trade union federation urged protesting students yesterday to guard their anti-fees campaign against "opportunists and hired revolutionaries." COSATU called on the students in the nationwide Fees Must Fall campaign to engage with government efforts to alleviate their plight. The federation welcomed a new inquiry into higher education funding and state grants for 405,000 students this year announced by President Jacob Zuma and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande last week. COSATU urged student organisations to bring "workable proposals and solutions to the table. "They should also guard against hired revolutionaries, who would want to hijack their struggles with the aim of harnessing their grievances for narrow political gains." The campaign has received support from the main opposition Democratic Alliance, a motley crew of liberals and former members of the apartheid-era National Party, and the Economic Freedom Fighters, a demagogic split from the ruling ANC. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d166-South-Africa-Cosatu-tells-students -to-beware-opportunists#.Vp26R_l9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" 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.
