Chairperson, comrade Minister and comrade Deputy Minister, leave a clear legacy when you leave. Rename the University of Fort Hare after Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, who said Fort Hare must be to Africans what Stellenbosch was to the Afrikaners when he was the president of the representative council of students. He went further and said education means service to Africa.
Minister, the university should not produce the knowledge and skills they want; they must produce the ones that we need and want. What do we want? We want to control our land and wealth. We want to manage it. And we want to develop it. Therefore knowledge and skills produced in higher education must respond directly to the needs of our economy. The implication of this argument is that higher education cannot be controlled by individual universities in so far as preparing our generation for control, management, and development of our economy. The point is education must be linked directly with the economy.
Secondly, when students graduate, they must not be found on the road asking for jobs. The fact that we had a hire a graduate campaign in the Eastern Cape, not so long ago points to the fact that government has outsourced its responsibility to universities, as it has done to capitalists.
How can graduates be unemployed after graduation? This does not make sense. There is a failure in the higher education and in government. The specific failure is by not knowing where graduates go after graduation. As we speak, they are sitting at home some of them because this country has no education planning whatsoever.
Universities are making money out of education. There are not building the future. Yes, we are saying there must be education planning and must be linked with the control and development of wealth. It must be known in advance where graduate are going and how they get there.
The fact is that we need Africanist socialist education, education that eliminates poverty, not one which contributes to
unemployment, inequality, and exploitation. This is why Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania, Pasma, in colleges and universities across Azania has consistently called for free education. It wants to ensure there is access for all. That Pasma had been calling for a socialist education. It wants to ensure education is linked to solving social and economic needs. That's what Pasma has initiated, even support fees must fall beyond fighting against fee increment, and that it why Pasma has been calling for something beyond decolonisation. For a socialist education, it is because Pasma is our child and we have taught it well. The PAC supports the Budget. [Time expired.]