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Zuma Freezes Tuition Fees Amid Student Protests
South African President Jacob Zuma has ruled out any increases in university tuition fees for next year after more than a week of protests by students.
They have been the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid ended in 1994.
The students had rejected an earlier government offer to cap increases at 6%, down from the 10% to 12% proposed by the management of universities.
Mr Zuma announced the move as students gathered by his office in the capital.
Before he spoke in a TV address, police had been using stun grenades and water cannon to stop a group of students breaking into the Union Buildings, the seat of government in Pretoria.
BBC
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 24, 2015 at 9:46 am
One thing I like about south Africans is that they hold their government accountable. I think after their apatheid struggles they do understand the importance of freedom. Zambians on other hand have gotten used to poverty under pf and just put up with it. Wake up my brothers and sisters.
Bee
October 24, 2015 at 12:58 pm
My Comment below is mearnt for u lazy bum…always on the computer to c the latest. I know u will say that you work, ur abroad, ur educated, blah blah….but we av heard it before, so, take leave and let others also give their view…you are boring…and I haven’t referred to PF as you lazy bum always does. I never blame no body for my problems
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 24, 2015 at 1:12 pm
you sound very upset and I do not blame you. Many zambians feel the same due to the conditions they find themselves under the useless pf. You go on to state that I should give you a chance to comment. Do you realise that you can comment even after or before I have commented?
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 24, 2015 at 1:14 pm
I am not kambwili who is trying to stop people from enjoying press freedom. Please i remember you very well ka bee. you are a staunch pf cadre. who are you fooling? kiki wake up mambala
Bee
October 24, 2015 at 12:54 pm
You just have to comment on anything ayi? The most boring ass you are. Let others comment and find a job. I know ur paid crumbs to do this..but relax sometimes. For lazy bums like u, life is always poverty…take yo crazy colors somewhere
Hello Haters
October 24, 2015 at 9:03 pm
You call that crazy colors? Put your pf green underwear as you avatar, inga chakukalipa is your mental faculty failing you, and can’t churn out data konkanyasili?
Hello Haters
October 24, 2015 at 8:36 pm
Never knew Zuma had so much for education, am not his fan but he seems to have respect for students, unlike his Zambian counterpart whose police force descended on harmless poor cbu students on a day we supposed to celebrate our freedom , toasting away with his royal guest at house state.
mj banda
October 25, 2015 at 5:52 am
Jag some clever chaps on this site are now praising Zuma but if the same happened in Zambia then it would ve been inconsistencies. Price were just unfair for the poor guys cos just imagine from Red registration fees to R20000. The rand isn’t an easy money to find and moreover it has value.
Hello Haters
October 25, 2015 at 7:14 am
mj banda how is joburg? Mune the soapy superstar zuma has made a bond decision over the students tuitions fees impasse, and what is your president doing about the simple cbu impasse, since his minister has failed to sort it out? Let’s pray that’s the first thing he will deal with when he visits kitwe this week, kikikiki mwaiche wandi ulensenkesha you and your little buddies have been telling us the kwacha’s poor performance is due to a global economic crisis, and all countries are affected bit here you are talking about the south Africa rand having value, so you PFool cadres know that the kwacha has been rendered useless by your PFool cadres now you even praising the Rand.
mj banda
October 25, 2015 at 8:33 am
Am just a blogger on this site and not your youngy, learn to ve respect even though I never meet you in life. What am writing is the truth, the rand has value but with your kwacha am yet to check for myself. This is a new era and I hope we respect each other for once and not posting any nonsense for the sake of politics. Enjoy your Sunday Hello haters.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
October 25, 2015 at 9:10 am
Kiki haters you took words out of my mind. Wasosa mune. We hope mj will open his mind