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I am fully supporting the fees must fall movement but we as students we must be practical about this. Yes we want our demands to be met but we must also keep in mind that this will not take a day or a month but it will will some time ,the reason being that south Africa is still a developing country. i truly think that what we should call for now is maybe the reduction of fess. For in instance if the fees increase by 8%  the NSFAS should also increase by the same percentage, the wages and the salaries should also increase by the same percentage so that there could be a balance in the whole cycle.. I am a third year student at tuks and I really want to finish my degree but as in now I am owing the university and I cant see my marks at all and there are few people that I know whom their fees have never been paid at all and they cant see their marks ,they dont qualify for residence. At the beginning of the academic year we struggle to register due to outstanding fees. But i think we as students we should direct our demands to the right people, the university can not offer us free education but they can help with reduction of fees, as we speak right now the university hired private securities and bouncers, and the money that is used for that should be used in the fee reduction or assisting students with their fees. By burning things down we not being thoughtful again because now the money that was going to help us with the fees will have to be used to fix the infrastructure like roads, buildings e.t.c, 
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