The mergers and restructuring of tertiary institutions are geared towards the creation of a docile, unskilled slave mass and an elite of controllers of the working class [the amabhunu amnyama]. Many working class and other poverty-stricken parents are making huge sacrifices to enroll their sons and daughters to tertiary institutions to study in the hope that they will have a better life than what the parents had to endure.
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[1] https://www.pambazuka.org/author/contributor
[2] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3294
[3] https://www.pambazuka.org/article-issue/82
[4] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3277
[5] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/education/10392
[6] https://www.pambazuka.org/taxonomy/term/3287