Universities should not make money - fees commission
29 September 2016
Pretoria – Universities should not be money-making organisations, the fees commission heard on Thursday.
Universities were meant to help build a nation, not make profit, the South African Further Education and Training Student Association (Safetsa) said at the commission’s public hearings in Pretoria.
The association’s president Yonke Twani, and his colleagues Thato Kgetse and Nozuko Tukela presented their submission.
Although some countries had tried to implement free education and failed due to the state of their economies, South Africa could achieve it, with “imagination and commitment,” they said.