The Treasury had been engaging with credit ratings agencies about the possibility of a decision on higher education, says Gigaba.
Five students tell of their struggles to get funding to make their career dreams a reality.
Practical steps will help the National Education Crisis Forum resolve the fees issue and other problems.
A march to the SA High Commission has been organised to demand that government prioritise the fees crisis in higher education.
Students can protest vehemently but not violently and ‘f*** white people’ is an opinion, not a threat.
Students say Habib has been invited to address mass meetings ever since the protests began, but failed to show up.
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The South African Police service said the case will be handed to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
The case against #FeesMustFall leader and former Wits SRC president Mcebo Dlamini was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
In response to recent expulsions and suspensions, VUT students began another wave protests, demanding that students be allowed to return to campus.
Students leaders remained on campus to caucus and talk about their way forward as students went to hillbrow support the ones who were arrested.
When several South African universities merged, it was hoped this would improve access and equality. It had the opposite effect.
Academics are putting in place plans to help students write exams should universities shut.
Protesters disrupted a joint Swedish-South African chemistry lecture, flinging buckets of faeces in the auditorium.
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Equal Education general secretary Tshepo Motsepe: "The only institution that can deliver free education is the government".
Students have said that a general assembly would provide a more realistic platform for members of the university community to share their views.
Violence has erupted at Wits University once more after police opened fire on protesting students earlier this morning.
Ongoing students protests over demands for fee-free education forced the university to shut down.
This figure excludes the socioeconomic costs to the entire university community.
There is not a significant amount of empirical research data that shows the link between violent protest and emotional trauma.
Wits’s former SRC president says the ANC secretary general’s comment on closing universities to teach protesters a lesson was irresponsible.
In such a system the wealthy will pay and the lowest and middle income students are covered.
When they’re out in the streets, students in the #FeesMustFall protests seem united.
It is utterly shocking and uncalled-for the manner in which students have been conducting themselves at some universities.
At least one student was injured on Wednesday after a confrontation between students and police at the University of the Witwatersrand.
The building is the main space where students hold mass meetings and they pushed their way in after police and security officials tried blocking them.
Students vow to retaliate after private security and SAPS officials barred them from entering the venue where they intended to hold a mass meeting.