Mapaila said having Ramaphosa address the gathering would help avoid tension between the SACP and its ANC allies.
The agriculture minister, the presidency deputy minister, four premiers and Cosatu’s leader are in the sights of the anti-JZ faction
Worker’s Day commemorations are expected to be attended by both Zuma’s friends and foes with divisions likely to play out publicly
The SACP secretary general says an anti-Zuma campaign will not resolve the fundamental causes of the problems facing the country.
The higher education minister added that some political parties see the protests as an opportunity to revive themselves.
Among the colleges that were forced to close are the Tshwane North and Tshwane South colleges.
The gazette proposes a “blueprint” for funding the full costs of study for the very poor, the poor and the missing middle.
Student protesters should make the most of the opportunities government has made available to them, says the higher education minister.
Readers write about report card missteps and the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme
Bawa said the assumption was that there were about 400 000 students who fell in the “missing middle” category.
Student organisations have threatened to revolt against a decrease in enrolments of first-year university students and the capping of college numbers.
This comes after the department of higher education called for missing middle students to be registered next year — despite the students owing money.
Concerns about the administration of the University of Zululand have been mounting.
Varsity heads want student aid to be extended to families earning less than R200 000 a year.
Today’s #MTBPS2016 will be key to South Africa averting a credit downgrade by rating agencies.
Students expressed disappointment at their lack of control over violent elements within their group after a stand-off between police and protesters.
The Wits University vice-chancellor says the last time he saw the minister was at the higher education summit.
Equal Education general secretary Tshepo Motsepe: "The only institution that can deliver free education is the government".
President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande spoke at the Higher Education Stakeholder Summit this morning.
Fees didn’t fall, the kwaito star did, the star couple are heading that way, and the rapper suggested it.
Former Wits SRC leader Shaeera Kalla says student leaders at the university have shown they are not interested in debating fee increments.
Wits’s former SRC president says the ANC secretary general’s comment on closing universities to teach protesters a lesson was irresponsible.
The minister’s brother-in-law is coining millions of rand from a printing contract that has ‘expired’.
When they’re out in the streets, students in the #FeesMustFall protests seem united.
There are revenue sources that can be examined carefully and accessed to fund free education for all, at all levels.
Wits students are planning to shut down the university, but the situation at other institutions such as Stellenbosch has been sedate.
Students vow to retaliate after private security and SAPS officials barred them from entering the venue where they intended to hold a mass meeting.
For the first time, students from so-called "missing middle" families will not be subjected to a fee increase at university next year.
Higher Education and Training minister says the department doesn’t want to ‘inflict damage’ as it mulls over the possibility of varsity fee increases.
Institutions enrolled students in good faith as they awaited funding — which has yet to materialise.
Nzimande has tried to set up meetings with Zuma, but Number One neither answers his calls nor returns them.
Senior government staff and company directors are a significant portion of those who have not repaid their loans.