Free education announcement

The announcement of free education came as a shock to some of the fellow citizens of South Africa and some were very excited to hear these news. The former president Mr Jacob Zuma announced that the 2018 first years would be having free education, he then went on and assured the parents who earn an annual salary of less than R350 000 that their children will be entitled to free education.

"Having amended the definition of poor and working class students, government will now introduce fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working class South African undergraduate students starting in 2018 with students in their first year of study at our public universities" Zuma said.

He then went on and stipulated that the students which he categorised as poor and working class under the new definition will be funded and supported through what he calls ''government grants' instead of loans such as the National Students Financial Aid Scheme known as NSFAS.

This free education proposal will not curb the issue of unemployed people in our country. We are currently having a large number of unemployed graduates which shows that free education will just increase the number of unemployed graduates that our country has. I believe this proposal is not realistic as our country is currently in junk status and our budget does not allow us to implement this proposal brought by Jacob Zuma.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/zuma-announces-free-higher-education-for-poor-and-working-class-students-20171216



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  1. Unknown17 March 2018 at 14:56

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  2. Unknown17 March 2018 at 15:00

    These are great news for the citizens who don't foresee the future, this "free education"will decrease the value of the higher education.

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