SASCO calls for campus shutdown
The South African Students Congress in Gauteng has called for a total shut down of all campuses in a statement last night.
SASCO released a statement last night calling on all students to shut down campuses until President Jacob Zuma meets with students and higher education stakeholders.
The organisation has given the president 7 days to meet with them.
"The call comes after the call by the National Working Committee of SASCO for President Jacob Zuma to come down and meet us within 7 days, which he hasn't done," the statement read.
SASCO added that this has led to a call for a total shutdown across the Gauteng Province.
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Here are the demands by SASCO:
1. President and Deputy President to meet with student leaders and attend to the crisis in less than a week
2. Demilitarization of our campuses by VC's and immediate removal of private security and police on campuses.
3. The judicial commission on Fees must submit the preliminary report now.
4. The minister of higher education and training to pronounce on a sector wide implementation of the missing middle product.
5. Amnesty to all arrested students and staff
As SASCO in Gauteng we remain committed to the call for Free Quality Education as we have been for the past quarter of a century since the dawn of democracy.
The student organisation also called on parents of students to join their call for free higher education.
"We call on our mothers and fathers to join us in our call as Education is a shared responsibility within the working class community, it therefore becomes imperative that we shut down as of the 11th of October 2016 up until a time that the President of the Republic and government as a whole take serious the call for Free Quality Education and commit on its implementation now," it said.