{"id":5331,"date":"2015-01-20T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.lonelyviking.dev\/nzimande-uses-education-yet-another-political-stunt\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:49:23","slug":"nzimande-uses-education-yet-another-political-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/nzimande-uses-education-yet-another-political-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nzimande uses education for yet another political stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth said that the creation of an \u201cAcademic Alliance\u201d by the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, is yet another political stunt which merely serves as a smoke screen to justify one-sided policy directions. No minority group has been invited to participate in the discussions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Henk Maree, the National Chairperson of AfriForum Youth, said that \u201cNzimande\u2019s so-called \u2018wide variety of stakeholders\u2019 comprise a handful branches of the ANC and distant family members of government officials\u201d.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nzimande indicated that the Alliance was created to consider and understand the expectations of different stakeholders in Higher Education.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>AfriForum Youth sent a letter to the Minister in which they request a meeting. Maree said that \u201cif Nzimande is really interested in all stakeholders\u2019 expectations, he will respond appropriately and AfriForum Youth is eager to share their thoughts with the Minister\u201d.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Minister often argues that diversity is king and that institutions must be accessible, but it seems that the government is more accessible to some than to others.<\/p>\n<p>Nzimande invited, among others, the following organisations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ANC<\/li>\n<li>COSATU<\/li>\n<li>SACP<\/li>\n<li>NEHAWU<\/li>\n<li>SASCO<\/li>\n<li>HETN<\/li>\n<li>ANCYL<\/li>\n<li>YCLSA<\/li>\n<li>SAUS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here to read our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Department-of-Higher-Education_Eng-Academic-Aliance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Letter to the department of Higher Education (Academic Aliance)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth said that the creation of an \u201cAcademic Alliance\u201d by the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, is yet another political stunt which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-statements","category-perfervid"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":465,"label":"Media statements"},{"value":464,"label":"Perfervid"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum Jeug","author_link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/author\/afriforum-jeug\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":465,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":465,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":465,"category_count":222,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0},{"term_id":464,"name":"Perfervid","slug":"perfervid","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":464,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":153,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":464,"category_count":153,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Perfervid","category_nicename":"perfervid","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}