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October 21 2015 - Students of the #FeesMustFall movement broke through the gates surrounding South African parliament in Cape Town to protest against proposed tuition fee hikes that would exclude many poor students from being able to attend university, if passed. Riot police attacked the students with flash bang grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and batons. [video]/[video]

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Dear followers, what you see here is an issue taking place in the heart of South Africa. Now, I’ve been debating for sometime now on whether to make this post or not. Time and time again, I’ve thought “but this doesn’t appeal to them. My followers are not South African”. And it finally dawned on me today that, it doesn’t matter whether you’re South African or not. This is a revolution the youth of my country are fighting for. And it’s not an issue that any other country hasn’t faced. I am sick and tired of sitting back and have CNN and world news stations send me countless updates on the Rugby World Cup and news of a single psychopath killing at least one person in Sweden when the whole youth of SA is in uproar against the corruption and apathy of our government. People around the world should be exposed to this kind of activity, regardless of where it is. If anything, I find this situation very similar to that of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the states. So please take the time to read this and share it. You can have your own opinions on the matter, but at least don’t be ignorant to what happening around you in the world. This could be your country one day. 

All across South Africa, tertiary education systems have been shut down due to protests against tuition fees increases. Many people are in dire situations and consequently cannot afford the 10% increases of fees  every year and as a result get financially excluded, thus ending any opportunity of education that they are entitled to. Now I know that this is an economical issue that the government has to sort out and South Africa has had economical issues for quite sometime but it has taken way too long for the people of this country to realise that the government is spending BILLIONS of rands on trivial things such as nuclear deals, VIP jets, Etoll projects in addition to losses from inadequate handling of petrol and post office companies. This money could’ve been used to fund millions of students across the country and their education but yet the government continues to horde it and act like nobody notices what they’re doing with our tax money. I do not agree with the mentality that “if you cannot afford it, then don’t go to university” or even “you should work harder for what you want”. Whilst these arguments each have their own backing, I don’t believe that students should have their opportunities taken away simply because our government is run by greedy pigs exploiting the people of this country for their money. 

The pictures above are only a squint at the events taking place nationwide. Yesterday, thousands of students marched to Parliament in Cape Town city centre in order to have our voices heard. Instead, we were met with the apathetic attitude of our ministers, and even our own president refused to show face and address the crowd. The march was meant to be peaceful, but when the students furthered demanded response from government, they set the police on the crowd and chaos ensued. Rubber bullets, stun grenades, tear gas, armed forces, army brigade worth armour were all used. The level of police brutality on students was absolutely disgusting. How can they respond in such a manner when all we did was demand our voices be heard? When all we want is our right to fair and equal education? Several students were arrested and charged with ‘terrorism’ and ‘high treason’. And now the media even has the balls to go and lie about it. The South African youth is in a dire situation here. What must we do when our own government refuses to listen to us? When the ones that are supposed to be protecting us turn and attack us? 

Again, this is only a squint at what has been happening in South Africa. Please google up on what has been happening as I don’t have the capacity to cover it all in one post. There are tons of videos and articles available. Because of all this, many students have had their rights violated, they are subjected to enormous amounts of stress especially because exams are around the corner, and some are even suffering from severe trauma from this. Nobody deserves this no matter what side of the argument they are on. 

I, as a student caught in all this have been feeling overwhelmingly sad, confused, disgusted and generally frustrated in light of the events from the past week.

Started off feeling quite positive that substantive action has been taken by brave students and that a revolution away from oppression and marginalisation is finally underway. But the way in which the authorities and other people have been reacting to the movement makes me extremely upset.

I apologise for the long post and the rant, and I’ll probably lose followers for this but all I ask from you guys, is that you share this and inform others around the world of what’s happening. That you stand in solidarity with us. Don’t just like the post, reblog it too! If our own government will not listen to us, then maybe international pressure will do something. Help us have our voices heard. 

#FeesMustFall #ANCMustFall #NationalShutdown 

photo creds to Imraan Christian

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The way Lebohang Nova Masango exposes the ANC... 

Words to our government. The #FeesMustFall movement is not over! There is no victory here. We were treated like mindless beasts and given a false hope. “0% fee increases for 2016” said our president. What about the years after? Will the increase return? What about the increase implemented this year that cause this, it was not reduced! Those who are struggling to pay the tertiary education fees have not been helped, but rather disadvantaged for the remaining year. To make matters worse. You give is the ‘wrapper’ from the sweets we deserve. Then proceed fire at use with rubber bullets, throw teargas grenades and fire water cannons at us MOMENTS after we receive the ��victorious” news. We are the South African youth. Education is a necessity to our growth and we respect it. How dare you treat us the way you did. How dare you. Our government doesn’t care. It doesn’t. This was not a race war. This was not a fight between political party groups and the ANC. This was between the youth and the government!

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She told us!!! The system is fucked.

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me for 3 years straight: “sorry i haven’t been myself lately”

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mttxOqSaikU)

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“You can be anything you want to be” rather “you can be anything you can afford to be”

 “We demand free education for all now!” The South African Youth has spoken. #FeesMustFall

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oh, you’ll come back around, and we’ll fuck hard. come as you are, come with the stars coating your tongue and laughter sitting in your mouth like a moonrise over a mountain. i love you how you’re half garden and half landscape and whole forest beside the lake. we’ll love like nature and get tangled like branches and chew each other’s weak bird necks until one of us melts or we both do. i want to find your lips against mine and hum against them and dance against you like bumblebees do. i want to find you. i want to pull you out of the mud where your mother buried you. we’ll be like carrots and turnips and bitter roots. when you come back around, if you come back around, come bearing the night sky in a shawl and i’ll wrap myself up in it and tell you the story i made up about the lion who carries the galaxy in her jaws and the dawn who was her dead lover, come and we’ll act out that whole tiny mythology where you will breathe over me and covet every tiny color that our pitiful human eyes can see. our hands will press together like tectonic plates and we’ll converge on the kitchen floor until our breath like a butterfly’s wing makes a squall out there on the ocean and i will hope that somebody sees the choppy waves and knows that they were caused by two lonely hearts, the one who waited and the one who came home. you’ll come home, to me, judas. everyone always does. and when you come back, judas, i will cry on your cheeks and wash you of the guilt that eats you like ants. we could be our own candles. we don’t have to be the silence of a hanging tree. i’ll forgive you if you forgive me and we’ll both make each other crowns and laugh and be happy. i only know warmth when our bodies meet. we will be all of hell. we will power it with nothing but our chattering teeth. it was all according to plan, judas, the fall of you and me: but this time, when you come home, let us fall into the sheets.

/// r.i.d (via inkskinned)

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eye halve a spelling chequer it came with my pea sea it plainly marques four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea. eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong oar write it shows me strait a weigh.

as soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite its rarely ever wrong.

eye have run this poem threw it i am shore your pleased two no its letter perfect in it’s weigh my chequer tolled me sew.

                       (sauce unknown)

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Lana Del Rey for Rolling Stone, July 31st, 2014.

Photographs by Theo Wenner.

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i want to open a book store that is 24 hours and people can finally go out at like 2am and be like “i just finished the first book in the series i need the next one stat” or if people are just having a stressful night and want to be surrounded by books