Sasco set to shut down all tertiary institutions on Monday

The shutdown of all campuses across the country is expected to start on Monday.  

The shutdown is part of the ongoing protests over the financial exclusion of indebted students which started at Wits.

Sasco president Bamanye Matiwane says all students must be allowed to register.

"We are in a pandemic, all of us, and there are many concessions made for other departments and stakeholders.

"Now we are saying, there must a concession to students to say allow them to register for free because part of a majority of them, their parents lost jobs, they don't have money, we are in a serious crisis. Why can't universities understand that all of us are in a corner and assist each other." 

Matiwane says the organisation will also meet with the African National Congress (ANC), which it believes has failed the country’s students. 

"We feel that the leadership of the ANC is not serious, because they were supposed to plan about these things in 2020 and not now. 

"They can't be planning now when we are fighting. They are causing unnecessary conflict and it becomes a problem. So, that is why we decided let us shut down  all campuses.”

Sasco and the ANC are set to meet on Monday.