GOVT CAUSE OF STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES

Sir,

Not long ago, government was spending money like nobody’s business, buying expensive cars, going overseas but today students should suffer the consequences of government’s selfishness.

Many students have already been evicted from their rented rooms by their landlords due to failure to pay rent.
Government, as usual, has not given students their allowances. Instead it is making excuses, stating that there are technical failures which are delaying the process of sending money to every student who should be getting the allowances.

We know that government has no money, as it has used it on it’s priority projects and forgot about securing the youth and students’ future. We also know that its officials’ children are getting the best services at the best universities in South Africa and overseas in terms of education.
Thus, government does not find it necessary to prioritise the release of allowances to the poor students studying in our country. It is clear that it is now making unreasonable excuses which only gives them more time so that they can borrow money from other countries – and plunge the country into more unnecessary debt.

peanuts

Most students survive only with the peanuts they get as allowances. Sadly, only now are some allowances beginning to trickle in, at this very late hour when the students have already been victimised for their state of hopelessness.

If government is failing to make the needs of the people and their interests a first priority, then what is the point of having such a government?

Our government has made it clear that it is there to only serve individual needs and government elites, instead of the needs of the people. It is high time we sought a government that will serve the interests of the people, as a whole, not a chosen few.

Sibonakaliso Maziya
Big Bend

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