Tweeps were up in arms on Tuesday lambasting calls by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) student command calling for free education for all foreign African nationals in South Africa.
The #Nofreeeducationtoforeigners was trending on Tuesday with a huge majority of the tweeps saying that EFF has lost the way.
Students since Monday have embarked on a nationwide shutdown crying foul of financial exclusion and calling for free higher education.
Students from different political formations have since drafted a joint memorandum with seven key requests.
Lol the EFF hijacked the student protests and they want foreigners to have access to free education too
this is what happens when a student protest is hijacked by political party.#nofreeeducationtoforeigners
— Ernest Mahlangu (@LegendaryMusman) March 16, 2021
One request that has not been spared criticism by many is one proposed by the EFFSC that education for all foreign nationals studying in SA be made free as well.
“We demand that the university dismantles the upfront 75% payment of fees for African international students,” reads the request in the memorandum.
#nofreeeducationtoforeigners so you guys are getting shot so that foreigners can get free education? pic.twitter.com/n48lylZn7q
— Thapelo Seroka (@ThapeloSeroka) March 16, 2021
The EFF is known for advocating for the rights of African nationals and calling for a united Africa.
In January the party made controversial calls to the government when it asked for the opening up of borders to foreign nationals from neighbouring countries. At the time the country was riding through the devastating second wave of the Covid-19 and forced to go back to national alert Level 3 of the lockdown.
Back in 2019, the party called for the scrapping of borders and implementation of the monitoring of free movement from one country to another.
I fully support the students fight for free education but number seven in nonsense. Tax payers can’t pay for Free education of the entire African continent, the same graduates will later compete with SA Citizens for Employment#NoFreeEducationToForeigners pic.twitter.com/TmoKW97Esh
— Lerato Pillay (@Lerato_Pillay) March 16, 2021
African countries are NOT provinces of South Africa & narrow poltical interests are dangerous to our sovereignty!The EFF vulgarism& utopian of ‘Pan Africanism ‘ is gong to cost us WHAT we dn’t have therfore We must Reject any Infantile proposal by thm #NoFreeEducationtoForeigners pic.twitter.com/8uS103uhL0
— Kwena Molekwa (@Ruraltarain) March 15, 2021
-The Citizen
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