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Why Are South African Students Protesting?

October 5, 2016
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South African universities have been affected by the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid ended in 1994.

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South Africa’s president has warned that the protests, which have caused about $44m (£34m) in damage to property in the last few weeks, could threaten to sabotage the country’s entire higher education system.

What sparked the protests?

In 2015, proposed tuition fee hikes of between 10% and 12% sparked protests.

The demonstrations began last October at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand when students blocked the entrance to the university campus, following indications that the institution would raise fees by 10.5% for 2016.

The demonstrations, under the banner #FeesMustFall, led to the closure of some of the country’s top universities – and President Zuma ordered a freeze on tuition fees for a year.

But protests erupted again last month after a government proposal to raise tuition fees by up to 8% in 2017.

They are now demanding free education for all students.

Which students are affected?

Many black students say they come from poor families, and fee increases will rob them of the opportunity to continue studying.

Students say the fee hikes amount to discrimination in a country where the average income of black families is far less than that of white families.

They want free education for everyone, starting with the poor and “missing middle”- those whose parents have jobs but don’t make enough to afford tertiary education.

Extreme income inequality remains a persistently stubborn problem more than two decades after the end of apartheid in 1994.

Correspondents say the protests show growing disillusionment with the governing African National Congress (ANC), which took power after 1994, over high levels of poverty, unemployment and corruption in government.

The students want the opportunities promised when apartheid ended.

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