Public can solve fees quandary

NON-STOP, we experience how the foundations of our democracy are shaken. Schools are burning but there is a desperate call for education.

Roads and buildings are destroyed but the votes called for more infrastructure.

The economy needs to grow, but businesses are looted and people moved from extractive to destructive economic behaviours. The display of arrogance, stubbornness and self-exaltation will never change anybody’s heart.

We have to wonder from where they hope to get their counsel.

They are looking at each other, but there are no solutions. Nobody seems to be willing to hear and see what is right and just.

They have set their hearts on the wrong desires. My view is that a solution will only draw near when all consider the challenges: drought, infrastructure, unemployment, housing, education, social-economic pressures, the Treasury and more.

How can fees fall without reasoning and self-reflection? In this world, interconnectedness is the norm.

What leadership reflected by all?

The images of their actions show the same over and over: selfishness, stubbornness and self-exaltation is destructive.

Perhaps, in the same manner in which technology is being developed across the globe, the education fee and admission framework and matrices of variables, conditions, terms and progressive budgets for the immediate, short and long term are to be drafted by the public where people make value-adding contributions.

The matter is public so let’s develop a solution in public. Andre van der Zee