HOD's speech at Graduation Ceremony - KwaZulu-Natal ...

faced with complex contradictions such as labor versus
capital, black and white, Afrikaner capital and liberal
capital, fascism and democracy, fascist semi-feudalism
and capitalism, fascist labor and capital, national
beugiosie and national petty beugiosie, town and
countryside, races and races, ethnicities and ethnicities,
tribes and tribes, languages and languages, religions and
religions, we stay committed to the attainment of the
goals of equity and quality in education, education for
sustainable development and education for human rights
and democracy.
If today we choose wrongly, a South Africa that is deeply
divided along the lines of race, class, gender and HIV
status leading to increasing social conflict and violence, if
we choose a South Africa where the poor get poorer and
those in lower rungs of the ladder begin to feel an
increasing sense of alienation and disaffection, where
the prices of basic goods fluctuate widely, where fear and
insecurity contaminate and hamper the supply chain,
where South Africa loses its competitive edge, where
unemployment increases uncontrollably, where small,
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