COLOUREDS GETTING THE SHORT END OF THE STICK

IT’S evident that coloured youth are not among the masses who protest at universities across the country for free tertiary education. This isn’t as a result of support or lack of support for the nonsensical cause, but for the simple reason that our youth have, by and large, disappeared from the tertiary scene – not by choice, but forced out by the ANC’s racist transformation policies.

The truth is that the black majority are well catered for and over-represented in all spheres of government and public office. Coloureds have been systematically pushed to the fringes of society. Our youth are denied access to the public sector due to a discriminatory quota system which is inherently racist.

Should coloured youth consider teaching as a career, they would not qualify for a bursary unless they study an African language. Afrikaans is not considered African, although it was born on this continent.

Affirmative action and transformation are convenient but inhumane tools used by the state to deny coloured youth access to tertiary education.

Decolonising education is a no-brainer. Knowledge and the sciences are not the exclusive possession of any one race.

Students need to be exposed to the best-informed minds in the various disciplines of learning.

The destruction of property and burning of libraries by thugs masquerading as students point to the end product of a failed primary and secondary education system.

My concern is for the coloured youth who face a bleak future if the state continues its racist campaign to marginalise and exclude them. Urgent intervention is required. The University of Western Cape must reclaim its identity and be run by coloured academia to ensure the legacies of Adam Small, Jakes Gerwel and others.

CJ Phillips

AS THE founder of Counselling Revolt And Protest (Crap), I would like to give some advice to our revolting (pun intended) students.

You are going to university to learn, so remember well what you are now being taught: violence, intimidation and damage to property will help you to get your way.

You do not have to work hard or study, because you have a human right to a free education, and if anyone is foolish enough to not pass you, you must simply organise a protest – complete with the necessary violence. Don’t worry about any damage because some other, less deserving people will fix it.

The same applies when you get your (probably worthless) degree. If any company refuses to give you a high-paying, cushy job, retaliate by destroying their property – this should be a piece of cake, given the experience you’ve gained.

Above all, remember that your wants and desires are paramount, and nobody or anything is more important than yourself. As you’ve been trained to do, throw rocks AS INEXCUSABLE and abominable as the reduction to ashes of the law library at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is, it started with President Jacob Zuma’s profligacy exacerbated by the ANC’s condonation.

Perception of President Zuma’s alleged kleptrocracy let the genie out of the bottle and all hell broke loose.

When students invaded Parliament last year and got that no fee increase, was Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande taking notes? I doubt it.

I believe that there’s enough money out there to finance deserving students without raising taxes or milking the wealthy.

It’s estimated that the litigation to discredit Thuli Madonsela’s report on Nkandla cost close to R100 million and add the R20 million it is reported that the Sanral High Court junket cost the taxpayer. Do the arithmetic and you’d find, yes, there’s enough money after all.

Saber Ahmed Jazbhay