{"id":4909,"date":"2017-11-07T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2017-11-07T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:33:30","slug":"report-reveals-zumas-plan-free-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2017\/11\/07\/report-reveals-zumas-plan-free-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals Zuma&#8217;s &#8216;plan for free higher education&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>exclusive report by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-11-07-exclusive-zumas-free-tertiary-education-shocker\/\">Times Live<\/a>\u00a0this morning revealed that President Jacob Zuma\u00a0plans\u00a0 to announce a plan to introduce free tertiary education across the board. Citing government insiders, Times Live said the funding plan &#8220;could see the cutting back of departmental budgets across government to make R40 billion available for the 2018 academic year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Angry students <a href=\"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/2017\/10\/students-march-parliament-release-fees-report\/\">marched to parliament<\/a>\u00a0two weeks ago to demand the release of the Heher Commission report, which investigated the feasibility of\u00a0universal free tertiary education in South Africa. Earlier leaks indicated that the report found free education not to be feasible.<\/p>\n<p>The plan has allegedly been devised by Zuma&#8217;s future son in law,\u00a0Morris Masutha.\u00a0Masutha is engaged to be married to Thuthukile Zuma\u201a the president\u2019s youngest daughter from his marriage to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Dlamini-Zuma is widely regarded as the president&#8217;s preferred choice of successor in the upcoming ANC elective conference next month.<\/p>\n<p>The run up to the conference has seen fierce manoeuvring among the ANC&#8217;s factions, with a recent spate of media leaks emerging in recent weeks. It remains to be seen if we will really be told that fees will fall for students or whether\u00a0students are just being played in a political game of smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0exclusive report by\u00a0Times Live\u00a0this morning revealed that President Jacob Zuma\u00a0plans\u00a0 to announce a plan to introduce free tertiary education across the board. Citing government insiders, Times Live said the funding plan &#8220;could see the cutting back of departmental budgets across government to make R40 billion available for the 2018 academic year&#8221;. Angry students marched to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,122],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}