The South African Students Congress (SASCO) is taken aback by revelations heard at the Inquiry into State Capture chaired by deputy chief justice, Raymond Zondo. It has been revealed by Dr. Sydney Mufamadi that the ANC government unleashed Apartheid era tactics on the student movement to brutally quell the genuine struggles of poor and marginalised students in South Africa.
These revelations are a spit in the face of the millions of the African majority who fight daily to break the cycle of poverty through access to higher education. Students have clearly been used as pawns by fat cats in the ANC government and these actions are a betrayal of every principle that the ANC supposedly stands for. The violent cycle of poverty and corruption which is presided over by an ANC government clearly has no bounds.
SASCO remains committed to the call for Free Quality and Compulsory Education as envisioned in the Freedom Charter, and not the myth which was declared in 2017 and the lie which was sold to the country. Free Quality and Compulsory Education would ensure that every student is guaranteed a decommodified higher education, free of market influence and transformed curriculum which would respond to the skills needed in the republic and produce a patriotic graduate.
SASCO will be closely following the developments in the commission and the organisation will be meeting to discuss this blatant attack by a fraternal organisation that has been entrusted to lead the congress movement and government.
EDUCATION IS A RIGHT NOT PRIVILEGE!
Issued by SASCO NEC
Bamanye Matiwane
President
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Buthanani Thobela
Secretary-General
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