Morning Star.png 30 Arrested for Closing the Doors of Learning The Morning Star, London, 21 September 2016 The doors of learning were closed in South Africa yesterday as students blockaded university gates to demand fee-free education. Thirty Fees Must Fall protesters were arrested at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in defiance of the ANC’s 1955 Freedom Charter declaration: “The doors of learning shall be opened.” On Monday, Higher Education Minister and South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande recommended fee rises of not more than 8 per cent — just above the 6.5 per cent CPI inflation rate — to universities. He also raised the household income threshold to qualify for grants under the National Student Financial Aid Scheme from 120,000 rand (£6,500) a year to 600,000 rand (£33,000). He said: “There are many students from upper middle class and well-off families, as well as students on full company bursaries in our institutions who can afford to pay the adjusted 2017 fees, and we expect them to do so.” From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-584e-30-arrested-for-closing-doors-of-l earning#.V-Ian_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14154 (20160921) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com 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 yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . 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): yclsa-eom-forum-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . --- 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 yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to yclsa-eom-forum@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d213d0%2450d8da80%24f28a8f80%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
