South Africa: Mixed Reactions From Opposition Parties Zuma's Fees Announcement

16 December 2017

The announcement by President Jacob Zuma that free tertiary education would be extended to poor and working-class students next year has received mixed reactions from political parties.

The move has been welcomed by the Economic Freedom Fighters, while being slammed as nothing more than "populist politicking" that played with the hopes and futures of millions of young people by the Democratic Alliance.

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