Walter Sisulu University should become the second disastrous tertiary merger to be undone, according to views quoted before Blade Nzimande.
Two related legal actions will follow hot on the embarrassing heels of the scandal that enveloped Tshwane University of Technology vice-chancellor.
There has been little real progress towards Africanising our education system.
Again, students will bear the brunt of changes that have not been properly considered.
Blade Nzimande represents the politics and character of his party.
The Tshwane University of Technology has been placed under administration with immediate effect, the department of higher education announced.
Factions in the SACP and the Young Communist League claim the parties are trying to silence dissident members in the run-up to elect new leaders.
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<b>Yunus Carrim</b> and <b>Ben Martins</b> wants to know whether the SACP can be reduced to a one-man band.
The ANC is not deciding whether to implement nationalisation, but rather how to do so, Cosatu has told business leaders at a debate on the topic.
The SACP’s good track record is marred by Blade Nzimande’s intolerance of opposing voices, writes <b>Rapule Tabane</b>.
A group of people have disrupted the SACP’s 90th anniversary celebration after suspected sound problems.
When we call for strong leadership, don’t forget that’s what we had under the former president, says <b>Rapule Tabane</b>.
<b>Rapule Tabane</b> spoke to Blade Nzimande about his continued support for President Zuma, his fight with Cosatu and views on nationalisation.
The battle for Cosatu is on a knife edge. This week its central committee postponed debates as lobby groups pulled it in different directions.
Report says the South African Communist Party is in disarray and its leaders are after government positions.
The ANCYL says the SACP’s Blade Nzimande, who on Tuesday reminded Cosatu that Hitler favoured nationalisation, is spreading "childish" conspiracies.
The finance ministry has rubbished a report saying South Africa had granted Swaziland a R1.2-billion loan, saying a decision had yet to be made.
Blade Nzimande has fiercely defended the role of the SACP, which has been harshly criticised by alliance partners for failing the working class.
Nationalisation is an attempt by the ANC Youth League to save BEE "elements in crisis", SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday.
Legal action launched this week against the state’s NSFAS.
The tripartite alliance was "functional", the SACP said on Sunday, but general secretary Blade Nzimande said there were problems in some provinces.
The SACP in Gauteng has suspended its chairperson, Nkosiphendule Kolisile. This is seen as cementing support for Blade Nzimande.
The department of public enterprises is appealing to the private sector to help tackle the massive development backlog.
The debate on Blade Nzimande’s actions against the Services Seta has diverted attention from a more important strategic issue.
The Medical University of South Africa, folded into the University of Polokwane in 2005, is to be re-established, the higher education minister says.
Sociologist Ari Sitas’s ministerial task team on the humanities will convene an international workshop in Johannesburg next week.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has reached agreement with the Seta Forum on on transforming the Seta landscape.
Minister Blade Nzimande’s decision to suspend the UniZulu council is highly suspect, writes <b>Douglas Irvine</b>.
Blade Nzimande has serial legal battles to fight if he is to secure his recent radical overhaul of the skills sector.
The battle for control of the Services Sector Education and Training Authority continued with further legal action on Wednesday.
Higher education minister Blade Nzimande said the government has invested a lot of its skills levy fund on short courses of "dubious value".