Africa: Let's Have Realistic Expectations

I've been following the "Fees Must Fall" protests in South Africa for a while now and I was behind the students until they started demanding free education. That is so unrealistic considering the state of South Africa's Economy. Asking for free university education is like asking God to drop money from Heaven.

It's not about to happen. No one wants to see their tuition or the cost of anything go up, especially if you don't come from a well-to-do family as happens to be the case for most of us but at the same time, we have to realize that there are some things we can't get around.

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