The Fees Must Fall protests gripping the country are no longer about fees but about power and control, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has said.<\/p>\n
And they are as much a threat to the future as apartheid once was, she said adding that the protests needed to be confronted head on.<\/p>\n
“We had to stand up for the rule of law, we had to stand up for non-racialism…,” she said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch of her new book, Not <\/em>Without a Fight<\/em>, on Monday, she said the biggest failure the country faced was not having a properly organised, well-staffed and well-trained public order police force to deal with the protests.<\/p>\n “We shouldn’t be shooting bullets at kids. We should have our police force with really good shields at all campuses protecting people’s right to study,” she said.<\/p>\n Even if they had to use teargas and rubber bullets, she said, police still had to maintain public order.<\/p>\n News24<\/a><\/p>\n Protestors deliberately flood computer lab at Wits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n SA universities may not be able to take in any new students in 2017<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nMore on #FeesMustFall<\/h3>\n