It is essential to compare apples with apples when demanding free education
The poet is honoured to join the ranks of Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim and Miriam Makeba.
The latest protests against the president suggest that the complexion of South African protests is starting to change.
Although he expects he would’ve done better outside, Bonginkosi Khanyile used his time in prison to graduate cum laude.
Students agree it can’t happen overnight but they want an exact date from the state
A readers writes in about student protests.
As the South African state has become more authoritarian, it has also increasingly come to believe that the law is there to be bent to its own ends.
It’s not so much what the finance minister said in his speech, but what he didn’t say that should have us worried.
How poverty in many households excludes students from the chance to break the cycle of disadvantage
Young people speak about the frustrations of wanting to study but not having the money
Campuses were calm this week. But, with the possibility that protests may resume, the “securitisation” of campuses remains a burning issue.
It is crucial that the student movement also aims its firepower at failures by the current government, or it will keep deflecting responsibility.
There are whispers that the judiciary is being influenced by Jacob Zuma’s order to crack down.
South Africa’s citizenry is not the blank slate the ANC wants it to be — and they need to accept that.
The gazette proposes a “blueprint” for funding the full costs of study for the very poor, the poor and the missing middle.
Protesting students have opened a door to the future and there must be no going back
A new university fees scheme proposes a government and private sector partnership.
The South African government is committed to fee-free post-school education.
Bawa said the assumption was that there were about 400 000 students who fell in the “missing middle” category.
Decolonisation will take time and those capable of making it a reality are in short supply.
In this submission to the Fees Commission, academics outline the implications of free higher education.
Students distressed by events on campus asked for an opportunity to write exams in 2017.
This comes after the department of higher education called for missing middle students to be registered next year — despite the students owing money.
More than 200 newly qualified doctors may be left with worthless degrees if provinces can’t raise funds for internship positions
Bail was set at R2 000, as Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng overturned a decision which previously denied Dlamini bail.
#FeesMustFall is a real opportunity to rethink the university sector’s future and priorities
A march to the SA High Commission has been organised to demand that government prioritise the fees crisis in higher education.
"Believing that something could only occur within the borders of the republic is a national delusin"
Student leaders from different organisations put their differences aside to march on Parliament.
Varsity heads want student aid to be extended to families earning less than R200 000 a year.
Most of the country’s medical schools say final-year medical students will write exams
Students can protest vehemently but not violently and ‘f*** white people’ is an opinion, not a threat.