Spending cuts and VAT increase mean everyone will contribute to free higher education

‘We must make sure that in 2018 all academically deserving students are admitted freely in SA universities and FET colleges’

The president’s proposed policy for 2018 lacks the critical foresight to truly lay the groundwork to improve access to education

‘The manuscript you sent us (bar, perhaps, mention of a R99-billion surplus) brought us, and by extension our readers, no joy’

The imposition of the fee-free higher education proposal on National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of state capture