ANC in Gauteng, students, move to solve grievances
The ANC in Gauteng met with the Progressive Youth Alliance on Tuesday to try and find solutions to the crisis at various institutions of higher learning in the province.
Students across the country have raised several grievances since the start of the academic year, including the implementation of free higher education, student historical debt and accommodation.
“It was clear that students felt that their voice needed to be heard and for the issues affecting them to be attended to as a matter of urgency," says the ANC’s Bandile Masuku.
Masuku says an agreement was reached to engage the government to review possible buildings to house students in order to solve the accommodation crisis.
The various vice chancellors in Gauteng have also agreed to extend registration deadlines, which has been one of the biggest problems for many students, as well as to the granting of amnesty to student activists who were sentenced during the #FeesMustFall movement in 2016.
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