Achieving Cum Laude is a form of protest - Bonginkosi 'Education' Khanyile
19 April 2017
Durban - Bonginkosi "Education" Khanyile, the longest imprisoned Fees Must Fall student in the country says that achieving Cum Laude despite his incarceration was yet another form of protest.
Speaking to News24, Khanyile, a Durban University of Technology student said he felt that his academic prowess was a message to those who assumed Fees Must Fall activists lacked studious dedication.
"Everything we have done we have done because we feel education is something that should be accessed by everyone in particular black people and the marginalised. Even to pass with cum laude is part of the protest... we do love education. We hope this will inspire the generation that will come after," he said on Wednesday.
Khanyile said fees activists were often labelled as people who were "anti-progress and anti-academic".