This week Up For Debate responds to the ANC's 2014 Election Manifesto that calls for compulsory community service for all graduates.
This week Up For Debate responds to the ANC's 2014 Election Manifesto that calls for compulsory community service for all graduates.
Our panel includes director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics Pedro Tabensky, Zukiswa Kota from The Public Service Accountability Monitor and South African Students' Congress regional secretary Mthubisi Buthelezi. We posed the question, what do students owe their country?
Up For Debate is a weekly round-table discussion show, focusing on the relationship between South African education and its social context. It aims to stimulate debate about the way educational institutions in this country locate themselves in society. Each week, the show responds to a current news event (local, national or international) that fuels such debate. The show explores the way that issue plays itself out in the local context of Grahamstown.
The round-table discussion usually involves three or four studio guests, chosen because they represent a wide spectrum of positions on the issue. The show poses one central question for the guests to debate.
