Shahira kalla biography of albert

GroundUp: You played an important leadership role in the #FeesMustFall protests last year as Wits SRC president. What do you envision your role will be this year?

Kalla: My role has fundamentally changed from last year. As an elected student leader I had a mandate to both set the ball into motion and dribble it along the field to win our various battles.

This year, I must give current student leaders the space to lead us. I can only advise and set the ball in motion. It is no longer my role to do the dribbling. You will find me with other students on the front of the picket lines, standing up for injustices on our campus and beyond our borders.

The upskilling and training of our youth as we move towards a knowledge based economy is critical to our collective success as a country, and in as much as this is a student led struggle it represents something so much bigger.

GroundUp: The calls for fees to fall and for outsourced