Makgoba: Student protests failure of leadership – a ’picnic’ of what’s to come

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Professor Malegapuru William Makgoba, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kwazulu-Natal and Deputy Chairperson of the National Planning Commission, says the student protests sweeping across South Africa are due to poor leadership at the institutions. Makgoba says the transformation of these institutions is overdue and the students have taken the appropriate lead. Professor Makgoba says the apartheid style exclusion should be reversed through bigger education budgets that can be raised through a reparations tax, the current protests are going to lead to a bigger social uprising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 Oct 2015 5AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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