Zero-sum game of student hotheads won't help poor
20 September 2016 - 09:40
It's been a year since the start of the large-scale protests against university fee increases organised by the #FeesMustFall movement and the country has yet to find a way out of the impasse. The government's interim solution, the suspension of fee increases for this year, might have brought some relief to families battling to put their children through university, while unfairly benefiting the wealthy, but it was always going to be a temporary measure.
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