#FeesMustFall: What da ya Want for Nothing? Rubber Biscuit?!
James (Jimmy) Duly, MSc Adult Ed
World's Most Reality-based Operations Management at University of KwaZulu-Natal
As the news ramps up more and more articles about varsity students and their overly optimistic if not outright naive Great Expectations for the actualization of their plaintive cries that "Fees Must Fall!" to the point of Free Education, alongside Pres. Zuma's strategically timed yet cynical and rather duplicitous Unilateral Declaration of Free Education ... I recalled an old doo-wop/scat song covered by the Blues Brothers in the late 70s, which seems particularly apropos:
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a
sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you
had some meat...
Bow bow bow...
Ummm... the other day I had a ricochet biscuit. A ricochet biscuit is the
kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your
mouth. If it don't bounce back, hee hee hee, ... you go hungry!
Bow bow bow...
The song ends by asking the musical question:
What da ya want for nothing? Rubber biscuit?!!
Indeed.