UNESWA CONFUSION FRUSTRATING
My heart is soaking in agony. The pain is immeasurable and unbearable now. The confusion at the University of Eswatini is getting worse with each day. Our future is being swept under carpet and it is excruciating. Editor, please allow me a space in your highly-esteemed newspaper to express my utmost grief on the UNESWA crisis.
May I begin by making mention of the Senate decision made on August 15, 2024. Perhaps one should start off by mentioning that the University of Eswatini has closed for five months now, from March 2024, and is set to reopen tomorrow, August 19, 2024. Isn’t that absurd? How on earth can a learning institution close for such a longest time? What about the future of the students? We all know that an empty mind is the devil’s workshop.
Five full months without your monthly allowance is not a walk in the park. The institution is perpetrating so many factors affecting youth life and it’s heartbreaking. Last year, the institution shut for two solid months culminating in early, unintended pregnancies. The current situation will cause a similar predicament. During the recent closure, there was a certain group of self-sponsored students who remained studying in the institution. One would safely say, there were changes in learning shifts and nobody knows why. My major concern is that the April group was supposed to close for five months, while the other group continued with studies. Then on August 15, 2024, a memorandum announced a change of plans, all groups should reopen.
How on earth does one inform self-sponsored students on Thursday about reopening on Monday (tomorrow)? Accommodation is already allocated and some clearly have no place to stay, yet they are expected to be on campus on Monday (tomorrow). The accommodation challenge is a truckload of headache. Parents who now have to get money instantly for tuition, which costs an arm and a leg, now have to find scarce accommodation. All that within two days! The financial burden is real and it is not funny. Clearly quality education is non-existent. Apparently, the April group is set to skip Semester 2 of their Year 1 for Year 2 and it is said in the memorandum that they will return to Year 1 Semester 2 later. Lafa lelihle kakhulu!
The UNESWA crisis should be brought to table because the students cannot take it anymore. If this is being ignored, suicide cases are yet to be reported. We are depressed, really depressed. It is now or never!
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