#FeesMustFall

#FeesMustFall

THE SPREAD OF THE #FEESMUSTFALL CAMPAIGN 

The #feesmustfall campaign began in mid October 2015 by the students representative council of the Witwatersrand demanding the implementation of free tertiary education, the campaign started eye catching to the local and international media platforms when the nine universities started to protest and the message was clear that the cost of higher education were too high and unaffordable for the majority of poor black students, the protest started peacefully until it was widely supported things changed the protest started turning violent.

POSITIVE ASPECT ACHIEVED BY THE #FEESMUSTFALL CAMPAIGN

The #FeesMustFall movement was praised for its achievement in raising awareness about the funding crisis in higher education in South Africa. This is a long-standing problem that universities have been fighting for years but the #FeesMustFall movement brought the crisis to public attention in a period of two to three weeks. The movement achieved a number of positive things at various universities, including the renaming of university buildings, curriculum change and the in-sourcing of general workers. 

NEGATIVE ASPECT OF THE #FEESMUSTFALL CAMPAIGN.

However, it is also important to reproduce on the darker side of the #FeesMustFall movement, including the domination of male students within the movement, rape happenings, the exclusion of sex nonconforming activists and the party-political power dynamics and fights for leadership positions within the movement. These observations propose that the movement was not similar and was characterized by tensions and contradictions. Some of these tensions led to the emergence of splinter groups, and to divisions and disagreements within the movement which made it difficult for all those involved to speak with one voice. These negative aspects of #FeesMustFall need to be analysed critically to assess how they may have contributed to the collapse and divisions within the movement in various universities and the students destroyed the university materials.

RECOMMENDATION 

It was recommended that the campaign should have remained as a peaceful protest and the students representative council had to write a latter to the universities requesting for a meeting to negotiate the issue of the #feesmustfall by them doing so the protest would remade peacefully, the universities would have not increase their tuition fees for 2017 by 8% and the students should have not burn the universities materials because the reason the tuition fees increase the universities needed to fix the things that were vandalized during the protest.

CONCLUSION 

 The #feesmustfall campaign was successfully because now there is free quality education that is being implemented in the tertiary level and due to the #feesmustfall campaign the general workers of the universities are now fully employed by the university.