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This after SAUS met with Vice Minister of Higher Education Buti Manamela in Pretoria on Saturday to discuss a memorandum of demands.
A conference room. Image: supplied
JOHANNESBURG – The South African Student Union (SAUS) announced Sunday that the country’s 26 universities are supporting a national shutdown starting Monday.
This after SAUS met with Vice Minister of Higher Education Buti Manamela in Pretoria on Saturday to discuss a memorandum of demands.
Students want all historical debt to be dropped, among other issues.
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Last week, there were protests at some universities with one person killed near Wits University and many arrested.
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The union’s undersecretary general, Sibusiso Thwala, said that after Saturday’s failed meeting with Manamela, they have resolved to force the government to listen to them.
“The responses of the Minister of Higher Education, as the vice minister stated yesterday, are responses that we see as a lack of commitment from the ministry to urgently resolve the needs of students.”
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