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The unfinished business of Rhodes Must Fall, Sarah Baartman and Jameson

What does the university do with public memory?

Aluta continua: Wav Gardn (left to right) Kgotso Legare, Katlego Raphathelo, Sisanda Gebe, Moses Shadung and Tumiso Ditinti.

Soundtrack of the struggle

Jazz and activism have long been intertwined, but how does the music speak today?

Frontrunner for ANCYL leadership post embraces Ukraine sanctions

Khulekani Skhosana says the sanctions are a ‘medal of honour’

‘Dominator culture’, bell hooks wrote,  ‘has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity’. Photo: Margaret Thomas/The The Washington Post/Getty Images

Remembering bell hooks: There is no way to be ‘everybody’

Radical feminist bell hooks taught us to sit with perturbation and vulnerability as we revel in difference

Epitome of ethics: Author and cultural critic bell hooks insisted that care, love and spirituality were the core of black feminist practice and freedom. Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty Images

A spirit guide to ethical black feminist thinking and praxis

bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Alaister Russell)

‘Political interference’ hinders NPA in R100m crime intelligence probe

The National Prosecuting Authority’s leaders have been accused of bowing to external pressures for the stalled arrest of police generals

Whiffs of totalitarianism: Declassified documents show that the SAPS’s crime intelligence bought spy equipment to track and monitor #FeesMustFall students, and, what’s more, vastly overpaid for it. (Madelen Cronjé)

Top cop arrest blitz is imminent for R100m crime intelligence graft

SAPS top brass in sights for R100m security equipment corruption while spying on ANC and students

Protest and praxis: Iphupho L’ka Biko band members Athi Ngcaba, trombone; Miseka Gaqa, vocals (seated); Nhlanhla Ngqaqu, bass; Muhammad Dawjee, saxophone, and Lebohang Moleleki, drums. Photo: Tseliso Monaheng

Teaching South Africa’s youth about rebel music

Protest music and protest culture is part of being black, and of being human. Several musicians are passing this practice on to the next generation

Fees Must Fall: South Africa’s youth did not expect to be agitating for access to education after the advent of democracy, but neoliberal ANC policies have unfairly excluded mostly black students, which has led to student militantism and disillusionment with the ruling party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Will the EFF capitalise on the ANC’s governance failures?

Good election outcomes for the party will mean Julius Malema’s dangerous racism will again receive airtime

Listen to women and youth to enable recovery from the pandemic

Women in the personal services sector and young people have been hard hit by the pandemic in terms of employment, but they struggled even before Covid-19

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

The plight of the ‘missing middle’ is no joke, Nzimande

Parents who, on paper, look like they can afford to pay their children’s university fees often can’t. They also miss out on funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

Students to continue with protest until demands are met

Vice-chancellors tell parliament that there needs to be a lasting national solution to the funding issues as they cannot deal with them on their own

Higher education minister Blade Nzimande, who was the first to make a presentation, asked to be excused straight afterwards, because he had another important meeting he needed to attend.

Portfolio committee on higher education criticises ministry for not taking it seriously

Neither the minister nor deputy minister stayed for the duration of an urgent committee meeting to discuss funding challenges for university students

Students block Johannesburg roads in protest over university fees. Students took to the streets of Johannesburg early on Monday to continue their protests about fees as 26 universities across SA braced for a national shutdown. Students, countrywide, demonstrated demanding that those who are in debt be allowed to register and that historical debt be wiped out. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Teargas, bleeding knees and burning tyres: A day in the protest for free higher education

Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday

UFS: Private security moves on campus to monitor protests

The vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State has spoken about academic measures for students for the academic year following the national shutdown

Campuses geared for national shutdown

Students from campuses across the country have started embarking on protests, demanding that their historical debt be scrapped and that they be allowed to register

Higher education shutdown looms as Nzimande scurries for funding solutions

Nzimande’s last-minute scramble to find funding for students has not stopped them from mobilising for a nationwide shutdown.

About 50 Wits students are blocking De Beer Street in Braamfontein, where a man was shot and killed by police during a student protest

Man killed by police during Wits student protest

About 50 Wits students are blocking De Beer Street in Braamfontein, where a man was shot and killed by police during a student protest

‘It is so hard being a black and broke’: How access to NSFAS funding involves privilege, luck

Thousands of students are anxiously awaiting for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to respond to their funding applications as registration at institutions draws to a close

Study (Sepia Scallop), one of the works from Pamela Phatsimo Suntrum’s collaborative book ‘There are Mechanisms in Place’

‘There are Mechanisms in Place’: Collaboration births sacred text

‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy