Zuma’s surprise fees announcement not made to sway votes, says Collen Maine
The ANC Youth League leader has also hit out at judges who are becoming ‘politicised’, after last-minute court rulings that went against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s supporters
16 December 2017 - 14:09
President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of free higher education on Saturday morning was “not made to sway votes” at the ANC’s national elective conference, says Collen Maine, president of the ANC Youth League. Zuma announced in a statement on Saturday morning that the government would introduce fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working-class undergraduate students. The free higher education policy is to start in 2018 for first-year students at public universities.
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