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Habib leaves with no regrets about the decisions he made at Wits

Article Bongekile Macupe - 21 Feb 2020

The vice-chancellor announced he will be heading to SOAS next year

SA youth’s tomorrow should start today

Article James Maposa - 17 Feb 2020

Young people want better representation in the corridors of power, a decent education and an economy that guarantees them jobs

Transform campuses, transform society

Article Colin Chasi 1 & Ylva Rodny-gumede - 7 Feb 2020

These transit points can move the decolonisation process forward by breaking down barriers

Where will neoliberalism end?

Article William Shoki - 22 Jan 2020

LONG READ As the world was overtaken by upheaval last year, one photo emerging from the uprisings depicts...

What comes after nationalism in Africa? A luta continua

Article Sean Jacobs - 13 Jan 2020

There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms...

#FeesMustFall activist Kanya Cekeshe eligible for immediate parole

Article Franny Rabkin - 17 Dec 2019

Sentence remissions announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa means that about 9% of inmates are eligible for a reduced sentence

Kanya Cekeshe’s lawyer appeals decision not to grant him bail to the high court

Multimedia Staff Reporter - 16 Oct 2019

Kanya Cekeshe’s legal team filed an urgent appeal at the Johannesburg high court on Tuesday against Monday’s judgment by magistrate Theunis Carstens.

Kanya Cekeshe’s lawyer appeals decision not to grant him bail to the high court

Article Bongekile Macupe - 15 Oct 2019

After being denied bail, the #FeesMustFall activist's legal team is going to the Johannesburg high court

Fees Must Fall activist Kanya Cekeshe has been denied bail

Multimedia Malcolm Sekgothe - 15 Oct 2019

Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command Mandla Shikwambana and Kanya Cekeshe's uncle Mnikelo Madala react to Cekeshe's bail denial.

Kanya Cekeshe to know his faith on Monday

Article Bongekile Macupe - 10 Oct 2019

In court, his defence tore holes in the state case and how he ended up admitting guilt for setting a police vehicle on fire

#FeesMustFall charges were politically motivated and concocted

Article Bonginkosi Khanyile 1 - 7 Oct 2019

Some activists in the movement are rewarded for their role in the struggle for free, decolonised education; others are imprisoned.

Academics bemoan ‘toxic’ politics

Article Mark Paterson - 30 Aug 2019

Senior university managers say political parties should be banned from campuses, citing a climate of fear

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Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip: The guerilla priest

Carlos Amato - 23 Feb 2020

From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity

National

Tshwane water woes in court again

Sarah Smit - 21 Feb 2020

The municipality has been accused of deliberately derailing the contract to sort out toxic water crisis in Hammanskraal

National

Life in lockdown: Behind closed doors keeping out the coronavirus

Sarah Smit - 21 Feb 2020

South African students in China are staying behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak

Press Releases

Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.

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