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SACP Gauteng, Statement, 19 October 2016
Resumption of Academic Programme
The South African Communist Party (SACP) Gauteng Province congratulates the
student movement, the SA Students Congress (SASCO), the Progressive Youth
Alliance and the Young Communist League (YCL) for leading the resumption of
the academic programme in institutions of higher learning.
We are encouraged that while there are marginal sections in our campuses
that are hell bent on disrupting learning, the majority of the student
population have gone back to class.
We believe that the return to class brings the much needed impetus and moral
high ground to take forward the historic demand for a working-class-biased
free quality education as expressed in the Right to Learn Campaign.
We remain convinced that the recent wave of violence, anarchy and
destruction undermines the historic validity of this demand and the right to
learn.
We believe that the struggle for free quality higher education should be
biased towards students from poor and working backgrounds. We believe that
the general demand for free higher education that completely ignores the
history of our country will further deepen and entrench class inequalities.
Revolutionary Duty
We reaffirm our conviction that the struggle for free higher education
biased towards the working class and the right to learn are not direct
opposites.
As a matter of emphasis, attending classes and sitting for exams for
purposes of academic development is a revolutionary duty. We therefore wish
university students well in their exams.
We are confident that students will approach exams with a sense of urgency
and determination necessary to avoid the painful and most stressful reality
of academic exclusion, which becomes even more complex when interwoven with
financial exclusion.
We strongly condemn the destruction of public property that is the common
heritage of all our people and the social content of our national
liberation.
We therefore reject with contempt, and denounce as extremely backward,
notions of destruction of campus property on grounds of police brutality.
We are convinced that one is not the basis of the other.
While police and the administration of justice must defend public property,
it does not belong to police or the authorities, but to the people as a
whole. We believe the destruction of property hurts directly, communities
and the people.
Issued by the SACP Gauteng province
Contact:
Jacob Mamabolo - SACP Gauteng Provincial Secretary
Mobile: 082 884 1868
Lucian Segami - SACP Gauteng Provincial Spokesperson
Mobile: 079 522 0098
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