What does the university do with public memory?
Jazz and activism have long been intertwined, but how does the music speak today?
Khulekani Skhosana says the sanctions are a ‘medal of honour’
Radical feminist bell hooks taught us to sit with perturbation and vulnerability as we revel in difference
bell hooks’s refusal to ‘get in formation’ foregrounded healing as the foundation to a communal liberatory agenda
The National Prosecuting Authority’s leaders have been accused of bowing to external pressures for the stalled arrest of police generals
SAPS top brass in sights for R100m security equipment corruption while spying on ANC and students
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
Good election outcomes for the party will mean Julius Malema’s dangerous racism will again receive airtime
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
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.
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
Neither the minister nor deputy minister stayed for the duration of an urgent committee meeting to discuss funding challenges for university students
Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday
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
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
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
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
‘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
Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel
The spirit of defiance against injustice that was captured by the Soweto Uprisings in 1976 can still be felt among young people in post-apartheid South Africa
The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system
Students at the former homeland universities battle with conditions created by poverty
How South African citizens, the police and the army, and politicians behave during the 21-day lockdown will have far-reaching implications for our democracy
Sentence remissions announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa means that about 9% of inmates are eligible for a reduced sentence
The ruling on Kanya Cekeshe makes it clear that the law and justice don’t always coincide
Bonginkosi Khanyile says not having police coming to his house everyday is a step forward for him gaining his freedom
Bonginkosi Khanyile’s thoughts on the appointment of Blade Nzimande as minister of higher education, science and technology.
The minister displays no remorse for his handling of the #FeesMustFall movement
Opposition parties are eager to pick on this blot on the ruling party’s copy book
Fees must Fall has allowed us to imagine what a free and just society looks like, outside of colonial rule