SABC News reports that the Solidarity Movement, which includes trade union Solidarity, on Wednesday announced a ten point plan to help bring universities back on track and have the academic year continued with.  

The Movement claims to represent thousands of students and their parents.  Chairperson of the Movement, Flip Buys, said the crisis at universities was not about free education anymore, but the future of tertiary education.  He stated that it was unacceptable that a small minority of riotous students was depriving the vast majority of students of their right to study.  As part of the ten point plan, the Movement would work with other organisations to develop a funding model for worthy students.

• Read this report by Liela Magnus in full at SABC News
• See too, Student protests have gone too far: Solidarity, at SABC News
• Read Solidarity’s ten point plan at Politicsweb

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