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EPISODE · Sep 23, 2016 · 4 MIN

Freedom Charter's clause on free education

from General Podcast · host Channel Africa

South African struggle veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela says the Freedom Charter's clause on free education needs to be revisited. She was reacting to the country-wide protests by university students over possible fee increases for 2017 during a meeting with young people in Soweto. In 1955, the Freedom Charter promised that doors of learning shall be opened to all. And the governing African National Congress's 2007 Polokwane conference pledged free education for all poor learners until their first degree. But Madikizela-Mandela says making this a reality now appears impossible. Ntebo Mokobo reports..

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