Free education for all!’ Clashes erupt at S. African student protest in Johannesburg

Even after the fall of the Apartheid regime, inequality is still alive and well in South Africa. Although there have been successes in achieving political rights, economic rights still must be fulfilled. Education can provide new job and life opportunities. The lack of access and affordable higher education causes sociological problems. It stops social mobility, puts people at a higher rate of unemployment, and causes crime. The protests in Johannesburg must continue so that the last elements of the Apartheid d past can be eliminated. If the young people of South Africa are to be successful, they need the skills necessary to be competitors in a 21st century global economy. The ANC must go back to its socialist roots, by creating an effective system of welfare for the whole nation. An emphasis on education, infrastructure, industrial development, and Pan-African values will form the Rainbow Nation which  President Mandela dreamed of.