THE SA Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions say the current chaos in higher education in South Africa were a direct result of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s budget cuts and austerity measures.
The bilateral meeting took place this week and was attended by the SACP’s General Secretary Blade Nzimande and COSATU’s president Zingiswa Losi.
The bilateral meeting resolved that at the centre of the funding problems affecting colleges and universities was the ‘endemic capitalist crisis and neoliberal policy of austerity’, inclusive of the paradigm of budget cuts over the years dating to previous administrations.
This week, thousands of the country’s 26 universities embarked on a national shutdown against financial exclusion.
The student movement is calling for the debt of R13 billion to be cleared, the allocation of funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, or NSFAS, to new students and for laptops to be provided as
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