University students in South Africa have been protesting for more than a month, demanding for free education in the country’s tertiary institutions. Currently the tension at the University of Witwatersrand, where in the past two weeks there has been violent conflict between police and protesting students. The country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan said that the government has other priorities to deal with, either than providing free education. Gordhan was in New York for the South Africa Tomorrow Investor Conference. Today on the show we ask the question: Is free education an affordable reality for a developing country, like South Africa?
On the line is:
• Professor Hlonipha Mokoena Associate Professor W i S E R (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) University of the Witwatersrand.
• Ihsaan Bassier, Economics at UCT, Honours.
• Reg Rumney, independent consultant and economic researcher,
• Musa Nnwande, spokesperson for the Fees Commission
