20/01/2021
EFFSC STATEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE NATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Monday, 18 January 2021.
The EFFSC extends its sincere gratitude to all foot soldiers, ground forces, leaders of the Student's Command that have committed to the liberation and emancipation of the black child against all odds and deliberate attempts to undermine the program of economic freedom, free education, and the student movement in its entirety.
As we begin the year we mark today as an important day to reflect on the role of the Student's command within the higher learning sector particularly after such a pathetic and degenerate address by Minister Blade Nzimande. After insisting on a recall of 20,000 prospective Unisa Students, blatantly refusing to open late applications for NSFAS regardless of the technological divide and access issues plaguing black students, the minister of DHET pompously addressed the nation without accounting for the structural failures of DHET, the N+2 rule, non-delivery of laptops, and the lack of institutional readiness by TVETS and Universities. A department ran by a "communist" has stopped considering the plight of the black child, arrogantly paying no regard to their working class/ poor backgrounds. DHET has taken a position to introduce structural exclusion, fee increments, reduce students’ enrolments and further subjugate the black child. We view this as a vicious attack on black dreams! And the developmental agenda.
We have no confidence in the research R68 million reprioritization, historically and even presently the DHET has been as a sector characterized by looting of NFSAS funds, nepotism, and racketeering. There is no capacity nor Political will in this department to usher in Free Education as previously declared and the SACP must be embarrassed for deploying a clown in such an important sector. Seemingly the more the minister bleached his skin is the more he becomes a house negro.
We have inherited a very broken South Africa but most sadly we have inheri
