EFF build-up march in CBD until Friday
“Today is just the foundation of what will be happening on Friday.”
The EFF called on all its members to join them in a protest march in the Pretoria CBD on Friday to demand free education and higher education minister Blade Nzimande’s “immediate removal”.
Their “build-up” march already kicked off on April 5 at the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) building’s offices on Francis Baard Street.
“Today is just the foundation of what will be happening on Friday,” said Mandla Shikwambana, the president of the EFF student command national.
“We will be marching from the department buildings on Friday to submit a memorandum at the Union Buildings.”
Shikwambana said they have raised the issues that students are facing to various departments including the DHET, but they got no response.
“We are here today to discuss these issues.
Shikwambana said Sibongile Mani, the student who received a five years sentence for spending R800 000 of R14-million erroneously deposited into her account, was also treated wrongly.
“Money was deposited into her bank account, the person who should be arrested is the person who deposited the money.”
Shikwambana said they were not going to submit a memorandum to the department because they wanted to talk to President Cyril Ramaphosa in person.
“We are going to tell the department that we, as young people, demand Nzimande to resign because he doesn’t seem to know what he is doing,” he said.
Thabo Maake, the former chairperson of the EFF student command, said they want to confront Nzimande.
“As we speak now, students haven’t received their allowances. Students are not able to maintain themselves.”
Maake said a simple thing such as the failure to disperse allowances to students proved to them that it is “a huge task” for Nzimande.
“He has failed the department and must step down,” he said.
Julius Galoshi Mogadi, the provincial leader of the EFF student command in Gauteng, said that NSFAS currently doesn’t have money.
“So we want to know how students are going to be funded,” said Mogadi.
“Nzimande must fall because he is failing to hold his people accountable.”
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