'Agitators Stir Chaos' 'Elements of Fascism' want to 'wreak havoc' at varsities - Mantashe Lillian Selapisa, Siya Miti and Mthokozizi Dube, The New Age, Johannesburg, 24 February 2016 ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has warned students in the country's tertiary institutions to be on the lookout for agitators who are determined to wreak havoc. Speaking at Buffalo City College's main campus in East London yesterday, Mantashe warned against elements of fascism that "depend on insults and destruction". "We are keeping a very sharp eye on what is happening in the campuses. Agitators have been planted in various campuses and trained thoroughly on how to agitate so that there can be disorder. You must guard against it. When it arrives, the whole system collapses," Mantashe said. Gwede on Universities, 24 February 2016.jpg In a swipe against the EFF, Mantashe warned against a "colour revolution" that is beginning to grip the country in the mould of Hitler's Nazi movement in 1930s Germany. Mantashe said while he was sympathetic to university students who want an end to Afrikaans tuition or who are demanding accommodation, he will not condone actions that disrupt studies and jeopardise needy students' access to funding. Meanwhile, students living at University of Pretoria (UP) residences were warned to stay indoors last night as rumours spread that some white students were planning sporadic attacks on their black counterparts. There appears to be no solution in sight in the stand-off between student groups calling for the scrapping of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at UP and those opposing the call. Yesterday a group of protesters rallied by Front National gathered outside the Hatfield campus, chanting "Afrikaans sal bly" (Afrikaans will stay). The group demanded to be addressed by vice-chancellor Cheryl de la Rey about the proposed language plan that seeks to have only English used as a language of instruction in all classes. It was unclear, however, if any of the protesters were actually UP students as Front National is not a student organisation. The call for Afrikaans to be scrapped was made by various student organisations, including Pasma, UPRising and the EFF Student Command. UP said it had taken a tougher stance on the violent conduct of students during protests and would be enforcing the interdict it got against protesting students. "We will also be looking in detail at the disruptions that happened (on Monday) and we will be taking the necessary disciplinary measures," spokesperson AnnaRetha Bouwer said. The Department of Higher Education and Training has called on university management to take decisive action against elements bent on using any excuse to turn institutions into sites of violence and vandalism. South African Student Congress president Thabo Moloja called on students at universities that remain "bastions of racism" to rise up and fight the scourge of racial discrimination. "The medium of instruction in the whole country must be English," Moloja said. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/24022016/epaperpdf/1.pdf -- -- 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.
