Perhaps you can blame that to poor financial planning or over spending during the festive season but whatever the reason may be I’ve found myself eating a lot of Pick n Pay R3 noodles this month than I’ve ever done before in my life.
The month of January is also synonymous with late University applications. The University of Johannesburg stampede has dominated news headlines past few days… but I feel I should throw in my little five cents here. So here we go…
>>> The whole of 2011 they had all the time in the world to think of what they wanted to study and where they wish to study. And the last time I checked one could use their Grade 11 November and Grade 12 June results to provisionally book a place at Varsity.
So these UJ kids (as I like to call them) didn’t do any of that and now that its January 2012 and they have no clue what to do with their lives… they all go running to UJ and in the process kill an innocent woman. And we are supposed to sympathise with these late applicants? Well not me.
>>> Secondly their primitive and raw behaviour… pushing each other and jumping fences to gain access on campus leaves so much to be desired for people wanting a place at a University.
>>>> And let’s not play the previously disadvantaged card here. I went to a rough township school in Port Elizabeth called Kwa Zakhele High school. But even at the age of seventeen I knew if I wanted a place at Rhodes University to study journalism…. I needed to apply on time!
While I’m not suggesting that people should be denied their right to education but a culture of sending varsity applications on time needs to be created and promoted by the various high schools and their education districts. These grade 12 pupils need to mature a little bit and realise it’s their future at stake here and that it’s their responsibility to play a starring role in shaping it.
