Company Announcement - The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] welcomes the affirmation by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Comrade Blade Nzimande of the necessity, as government policy, for progressive implementation of free quality higher and vocational education and training for the needy. The Young Communist League called for and campaigned for free quality higher education and vocational training from the onset, starting at its re-establishment congress in 2003.

Right-wing coalitions and collaborators such as the DA-EFF nexus are posturing opportunistically as if the free quality higher and vocational education. training was their invention. Tendencies such as the DA have unrepentantly supported privatisation, including in the sphere of education. Most racists who support the DA are a barrier to transformation in universities. Everywhere they dominate university Senates and Councils, year-in-year-out they drive up the cost of university education by sky-high fee increases.

Historically White institutions, which remain white dominated by the way, such as the University of Cape Town, remain the most expensive. This is a new instrument to keep blacks out. The academic staff in such universities remain lilly white. The DA cannot claim to be committed to free quality education. ‎The least said about the Johnny-come-latelies, the populist and opportunist fascist prototype, the EFF, the better.

The Young Communist League calls on government to move uninterruptedly with the transformation of post-school education and training and the progressive implementation of free quality higher and vocational education and training. The government must deccisively deal with the problems of the use of institutional autonomy by racists and tenderpreneurs to block transformation. The expansion of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to make higher education and vocational training ‎accessible to all on the basis of merit as declared in the Freedom Charter must be complemented by measures to reduce and standardise fees!