Sunday 6 September 2015

SASCO should WAKE UP

As SASCO celebrates it's birthday today, I hope they'll take part in a serious self-introspection as an organisation!

SASCO which is supposed to be a student organisation fighting for the interests of students and being a vanguard for all students studying in South Africa, has over the years allowed itself to be swallowed by mere party politics.

 In my humble opinion SASCO should've never associated itself with a certain political party from the onset, because by that you are indirectly compromising the values and key mandate of the organisation itself.

SASCO should be a non-political vanguard student organisation which should be attracting all students irregardless of their political affiliation and while other political student formations play politics which each other, SASCO should be mobilizing and bringing students together to fight the common enemy and push for a student agenda.

It's therefore very clear that SASCO is losing ground on various campuses which is the harsh truth we need to accept as students, I mean SASCO lost a historical institution such Fort Hare to DASO out of all organizations and lost Turfloop to the fast growing EFFSC just to name a few.

It's time for SASCO to go back to basics or run the risk of being irrelevant and compromising it's mandate by being political. When one looks at the amazing work being done by non-political student movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #OpenStellenbosch one cannot help but think that it's actually supposed to be SASCO doing what #RhodesMustFall and #OpenStellenbosch are perfectly taping into, which is bringing students of all political student formations together which is what SASCO is failing to do at the moment.

To show you that SASCO is compromising it's values, since the establishment of SASCO, SASCO has always been fighting for free education which the ANC led government should've long implemented by now, but minister Blade Nzimande is busy drinking red wine, SASCO has always been fighting for radical transformation in higher learning institutions which the ANC led government is running at a very slow pace to ensure that radical transformation, but every time when elections come near, SASCO is expected to say "Vote ANC" which is very disturbing and creates a contradiction of which students are beginning to realize.

SASCO should never in whatever way possible endorse,any political party no matter what, and should stop involving themselves in ANCYL politics, SASCO should leave politics for political formations and should fight for students rights, since it's a students organisation.

The only time SASCO should engage themselves in party politics is the day they have a seat in the National Assembly.

South African students are yearning for a true radical student organisation which will robustly fight the status quo and the lack of transformation in higher learning institutions of which many students are beginning to move towards the EFFSC leaving SASCO weaker, even more students are looking for a militant, unapologetic student movement which will be non-political and focus on the students FIRST instead of involving in party politics which is delaying The Student Revolution.

As South African students we need an organisation which we can all identify with first before anything and one where we can ALL join together to fight white supremacy and bring meaningful radical transformation and the reconstructing of our higher learning institutions!!

Aluta Continua

No comments:

Post a Comment