Unsilence_UFS

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE POLITICAL UNREST AT UFS

Black collective

Today a group of students and ground forces of the UFS gathered to advance a program of disruption. The reason for this was the fact that we, as the black collective, have been subjected to systematic violence for the longest time without any response from our side.

Today, we converged at the Student Lekgotla where we had a lengthy discussion regarding the deregistration process. Students raised their views profoundly, with the frustration of feeling helpless and having no control. Students further articulated that they are tired of endless discussions and meetings with a management that has resolved in excluding us from UFS, on financial basis. The colletive agreed that it is nothing but a futility to attempt to engage management, the same management that is responsible for the victimization of our brothers and sisters in the Qwa-Qwa campus. We resolved that we are done talking and need to get to a stage when we express the anger and frustration that we are all carriers of on a daily basis.

We proceeded in song to the library and computer labs, where we attempted to get solidarity from other students. From there we proceeded through the bridge, the other side of which, the yellow brigade-SASCO-was waiting. They proceeded to demobilize the student collective, by advancing the articulation of their regular anti-EFF rhetoric due to the fact that there were Student Command soldiers within the said collecctive. Irrespective,we proceeded to main building where we got an opportunity to converge and devise a way forward. The following issues were resolved on:
1) As students, we need to take charge of our struggle independently of political squabbles and that we should reject any attempts by populist student movements to use our plight of deregistration as a means to advance their own self-centered ambitions.
2) Clothing of political parties should not be worn by students when we are advancing a collective struggle such as deregistraton.
3) We can neither be reduced to the reactionalism of waiting until Friday to act on this issue, nor depend on the management of this institution to produce solutions for our problems. It is upon us.
4) We should converge tomorrow morning between 9-10am at Thakaneng Bridge to mobilize the general student populace behind the clarion call of fighting deregistration.

Of course, we are aware that the reactionary forces in our campus are intent on delaying the coming student resistance through tactics of processes, engagements and meetings. As UnsilenceUFS we want to warn the student populace against trusting self-centred individuals who are using our genuine struggles to advance their own selfish agendas. We want to draw the attention of students to the existance of Media popstars amongst our ranks, who use their political influence to not only advance themselves financially, but to coerce female students into compromising positions to fullfil their own barbaric desires.

Black collective, there's a lot of issues that are being advanced in your name but not to your benefit.
As students, we need to learn from history and realize who is for us and who is for themselves.

We remain commited and resolute to not only the fight against deeregistration, but to our initial call for Free Decolonized Education and no amount of delay tactics by any structure or student will deter us.

To hell with the exploitation of students by opportunists masquerading as leaders!

Students have the capacity to lead themselves, and this is exactly what we will do.

Come hell or high waters, we will defend the dignity of the black child from this systematic castration.

Let us converge at the bridge tomorrow from 09:00-10:00, because if we wait for Friday, we might just as well pack our bags in preperation to go home.




ISSUED ON BEHALF OF UNSILENCE_UFS by:

Liza Mfana
Spokesperson

BREAKING THE SILENCE ON DEREGISTRATION

Black Collective

The day of reckoning is almost upon us, and the end of our academic aspiration soon approaching. The management of the Institution under the the instruction of Senate and Council are resolute. They are not compromising and are resolved in advancing the systematic castration of young black futures.

As the progressive collective of UnsilenceUFS, we have decided to initiate a defiance campaign against the oppressive practice of exclusion that the management looks to advance.

As a result, we are hosting a student picket to kick off our defiance campaign against deregisstration under the following conditions:
Date: 29 March 2017
Time of Convergence: 09:00-10:00
Place of Convergence: Thakaneng Bridge
Route: Thakaneng Bridge to Main Building

Find a box and a permanent marker and share your black pain experience on a placard as you wish.
Let us hit Social Media in our numbers under the following hashtags, and .

It is upon us, as a generation, to advance our struggle for not only access, but unhindered access, for the black collective.

"Hide nothing from the masses of our people, and claim no easy victories."- Amirca Cabral

A way forward as to how we proceed with the defiance campaign beyond this picket will be communicated on the ground.

We want to study!

We will no longer be silent.

[PLEASE NOTE: We have changed the date and time due to logistical issues. Let us invade all platforms of the Media.]

Adv Loyiso Makapela speaks for herself through DESTINY magazine. The rot in the University of the (un)Free State is deplorable!!



http://www.destinyconnect.com/2016/08/31/former-ufs-lecturer-sued-university/

(EXCLUSIVE) UFS double standards on pay exposed | DESTINY Magazine DESTINY Magazine - Former University of the Free State lecturer Advocate Loyiso Makapela has accused the institution of overlooking her for a promotion, while her less-qualified white counterparts were promoted

As UnsilenceUFS, we are deeply inspired by the actions of the young black girls from Pretoria Girls High who have assumed the responsibility to confront white supremacy head on in their institution.

We view Pretoria Girls High no differently from the University of the Free State , North West University , Stellenbosch University, and University of Pretoria, as they all serve as ivory towers of whiteness. The struggle of the young black girls from Pretoria Girls High is one which should never be relegated to only their hair, We view these young fallsits as being on a decolonial project against an anti black school! Their actions will no doubt have a lasting impact on all former Afrikaner Universities as it is these schools which breed young white racists (and forces blacks into assimilating to whiteness) whom later come to these universities to re-enforce them as whites only universities .

We hope their actions will also inspire more Model C school populis around the country to take a stand against these schools which demonises everything about the black body and also embark on a decolonial project in their respective schools.