The background information of #feesmustfall
The protest of students in South African universities did not just start in 2015 with the fees must fall. Most students from the poor institutions or universities have been protesting against the fees that kept rising and the cost of higher education since 1994. By that time their protest was ignored and did not made any headlines in regional newspapers by that time. The 2015 must fall has involved many students, students from both historically advantaged and disadvantage students from the past and they have attracted so much media coverage and have involved the protest in London and New York.
https://mg.co.za/article/2016-10-10-feesmustfall-history-of-south-african-student-protests-reflects-inequalitys-grip
Advantages of using social media during #feesmustfall
During #feesmustfall students or protesters used social media like tweeter to make this campaign to be successful and to be popular. Twitter was being used not just to organise and disseminate messages but to actively subvert the traditional approach to the protesters. If students or protesters did not use tweeter there would not be a connectivity provided by social media it is unlikely the #feesmustfall would have spread as quickly as it has. Without tweeter or any other social media that it is unlikely that the protesters would have been able to to organise actions across campuses and institutions as effectively as they have across the country.
Disadvantages of using social media during #feesmustfall
Social media decreases the face to face communication skills, Public Relations Practitioners might find it awkward and unusual to hear something and respond with a thoughtful message through face to face because of ones depending on social media to convey a message. Social media can also give people a license or a right to be hurtful by saying things that one can not say or get away with in person. Public Relations Practitioners experience that a lot through social media by some of the public saying things that might be hurtful to them through social media. Students or protesters did lack of the face to face communication skills during #feesmustfall, they depended to much on social media especially twitter to convey their messages. And sometimes protesters or students said some of the things that they would not have said face to face or in person and get away with it.
The fees must fall was concluded when Nzimande announced that a household that earns R600,000 per year they would be exempted from paying from 8% fee increment wanted by the tertiary institutions or universities. At the end he concluded that how much was going to be an increase. https://www.groundup.org.za/article/fees-must-fall-2016-where-here/
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I second that fees must fall its not everyone who can afford to pay his or her own fees, education is is need to all of us we should not be denied what is entitled to us.
ReplyDeleteI salute the students who fought for fees to fall,if it was not for their voices that spoke in our behalf,the fights they went through in our behalf and so many other things that took place during the protest then so many of the University students would be doomed because of high fees
ReplyDeleteFees must fall is a potrait of the social inequalities in South Africa. A social debate gone political is what it is, I applaud the students who stood up for themselves as the voices for the change that is desperately needed.
ReplyDeletefees must fall has totally destroyed our youth future!
ReplyDeleteif fees fall it will give students the opportunity to study since others cant due to financial issues.
ReplyDeletefees must fall not all of us can afford to pay our fees
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