Commisions for the SASCO Political School

Commission 1

Fundamentals of SASCO

•Characteristics of a functioning Branch of SASCO.

• Campus Work (Student Centered Campaigns)

• Gender based Campaigns ( LGBTQI communities and their struggles, Feminism vs Gender Emancipation) Non Sexism Principle

• SASCO and the Fallist Movement on Campus, were we incharge?, what went wrong? What is to be done?

• Are we sticking to the Democratic principles? Are we Democratic? What about Democratic Centralism?

• Non Racial Org; Participation of other races in SASCO, I.e whites and Indians. What is to be done?

• What is the meaning of African Leadership??

• What is the meaning of Working Class Leadership.

Commission 2

• Define the education system in the context of the Global balance of forces

• Historical Evolution of Education

• Free Education and the New dynamic (Fee free education implementation)

• Curriculum Transformation, What is to be done?

• Reharsh Mergers, why mergers, Are they a success?

• Connection of Universities with TVET

• Language policy

• Role of Governing structures ( CHE, USaf, SAQA, Councils etc)

• Higher Education act

• Academic freedom and institutional autonomy

• Center and periphery

Commission 3

• SASCO as Left

• Tools of Analysis

• Historical Materialism and Dialectical Materialism

• SASCO and Black Consciousness

• The Decolonial Question

• NDR and SPOT (The alliance and Liberation struggle)

• 4th Industrial Revolution

• Internationalism and a posture of SASCO.

Commission 4

TVET Transformation

• The idea behind TVET

• TVET and Higher Education

• The TVET act

• Migration to Higher Education

• NCV and NATED (Whole curriculum)

• The Current state of TVET

• Governing Structures ( Councils and SRC and Government)

• SASCO TVET Branch, SASCO Organizing in the TVET.

What is to be Done??