By Kaya 959 News
Nandi Madida has added her voice to the free education movement.
The musician says education is the key to a better future.
“I want to see free quality education and employment in our country. The youth is asking for a basic right, a noble one as well.
“To empower themselves and change their lives and the lives of their communities for good,” she wrote on Instagram.
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University students all over the country took to the streets in recent weeks to fight for free education.
They want historical debt erased to allow students to register for the new academic year.
But higher education officials said the department could not afford to write off student debt.
The department’s budget had been cut by more than R20-billion.
Black Lives Matter
Nandi also spoke out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
She took to Instagram to react to the guilty verdict handed down to the American police officer involved in George Floyd’s death.
Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Chauvin was seen in a viral video kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine-minutes during his 2020 arrest.
Floyd could be heard telling the officer that he couldn’t breathe.
Nandi said she hopes the case would be “the blueprint and standard moving forward”.
“400 + years later and so much still needs to change for Black people worldwide from the beginning of slavery in Africa. These senseless racist murders that have been happening since the beginning of colonialism and this kind of justice is long overdue.
“…may there be no more murders on our people. Let’s continue to shine, because our greatness will never die,” she wrote.
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