Did you feel like this week was a year? I feel like I was on a rollercoaster, granted it’s the best ride in the park but I don’t like hanging upside down!
Let’s start with possibly the most important story this week and that is #FinancialExclusion #asinamali, the 2021 version of #FeesMustFall. I was watching the #WitsProtest unfold, the original messaging was that NSFAS had defunded a great number of students who were behind with their payments to the University.
I didn’t get that bit, in my world if you have a Purchase Order, you will get paid and I will continue doing the work. In Wits’ world POs don’t count and students get excluded because of dodgy accounting. I was furious. Only to learn more horror as the protest went from a peaceful one to SAPS taking devastating action.
The headline broke at 9.07am yesterday. #KarimaBrown had passed away. Over 87 000 condolences poured out over the past 24 hours as the timeline shot up with the harrowing news.
Photo: Minister Tito Mboweni walks to Parliament to deliver the 2021 Budget Speech/GCIS
I laughed a lot this week as the country tried to wrap its tongue around the new names for PE and surrounds. No one can pronounce them; when I say no one, I mean white people.
Look I get it, no South African place should carry the name of the British Queen Elizabeth; she’s the same person who chucked out her daughter in law because she didn’t have a lily-white gene pool, but while we’re busy putting up road signs, Minister Tito #Mboweni was standing in front of parliament giving us a damning report of the state of our country’s finances.