The row at Wits over an alleged racial and ethnic profiling tactic by Zionist organisations to control access to the a jazz concert has intensified.
Basic education’s "challenges" show government has allocated only 50% of the money needed to supply all pupils with books in all subjects.
NWU management has defended its controversial language policy, which sees non Afrikaans-speaking students using translation headsets during lectures.
The issue of payments to matric markers raises the same questions as the textbook debacle.
The basic education department’s advocate says Bobby Soobrayan was not authorised to sign the agreement, which makes it null and void.
The basic education department only realised on the eve of paying teachers it had several months earlier "erroneously" signed the labour agreement.
The basic education department wants the Labour Court to accept that Bobby Soobrayan made a pure error when he agreed to a 100% wage increment.
A recent survey of Wits lecturers has revealed dissatisfaction with governance and salaries, a view new vice-chancellor Adam Habib plans to change.
The crisis at the low-cost black empowerment university Cida City Campus, which is currently under a business rescue plan, has deepened this week.
University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Adam Habib told outsourced workers that he cannot afford to employ them.