If SA wanted to, it would have free education - Mpofu
Johannesburg - Former Wits student leader, advocate Dali Mpofu, says if government really wanted to provide free higher education, it would make it a priority.
“If a nation wants to educate its children, then it must make decisions and prioritise what is important,” he told students at the University of the Witwatersrand on Friday.
He questioned if a deal for nuclear power stations was more important.
“Is it more important that we should spend R30bn to R50bn on corruption, instead of providing for free education?” he asked.
Mpofu was speaking to students in a tent which had been erected to hold a general assembly on Friday morning. The assembly was cancelled around 09:00, before it started, as students and management had failed to agree on certain matters.