Moseneke who is also the chancellor at Wits spoke at the launch of his book My Own Liberator in which he captures his journey during apartheid and the value he places on education.
The retired jurist says it is possible to craft a plan to progressively increase access to tertiary education for the poor.
Moseneke says the state must re-prioritize resources on the premise of national interests and objectives.
“It may be that we can’t afford many bodyguards, it may be that we can’t afford our political elite any housing, it may be that these parliamentarians must buy their own food.”
Moseneke says while he cannot say how education should be decolonized, he thinks it would be learning that is dedicated to reverse colonial arrangements.
“I think the word ‘decolonized’ is a scream that the arrangements of 1994 did not yield the fruits that we are all entitled to.”
The retired judge says that while the debate about black pain is legitimate, he says the main question should be how to become our own liberators.
