The University of Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town are expected to resume academic activities after weeks of protests.
Faced with failing economies and climate change, free education fights need better solutions than shutdowns and technocratic responses.
Ongoing students protests over demands for fee-free education forced the university to shut down.
A private security guard is recovering in hospital after he was struck on the head by a rock thrown by rampaging students.
The road to a participatory democracy is being obscured by the easy use of violence by all parties in South Africa.
Campuses flared up this week as police and private security guards clashed with students.
Graduates would make a contribution based on their salary, with the rate of tax rising across bands in much the same way that income tax already does
This figure excludes the socioeconomic costs to the entire university community.
All activities at the university remain suspended and the institution hopes to ‘facilitate as wide a response as possible’ through the poll.
Fees didn’t fall, the kwaito star did, the star couple are heading that way, and the rapper suggested it.
Besides looking into finances the institutions are making plans should a shutdown affect exams.
It is utterly shocking and uncalled-for the manner in which students have been conducting themselves at some universities.
The University of the Witwatersrand has suspended all academic activity for the rest of the week, it announced in a statement on Tuesday night.
Our reporter Ra’eesa Pather is at Wits University to cover the #FeesMustFall which are on the brink of boiling over.
Students were arrested early on Tuesday morning as they attempted to shut down the university
Professor Suellen Shay unpacks Blade Nzimande’s announcement.
Wits students are planning to shut down the university, but the situation at other institutions such as Stellenbosch has been sedate.
Students vow to retaliate after private security and SAPS officials barred them from entering the venue where they intended to hold a mass meeting.
For the first time, students from so-called "missing middle" families will not be subjected to a fee increase at university next year.
Lectures at the University of Cape Town were temporarily suspended today following student protest action.
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande says universities in the country can increase fees for 2017 but they must not exceed 8%.
Spatial planning from the apartheid era is coming back to haunt South Africa’s formerly black universities.
The fed-up university says destroying property is not going to help students gain a free education.
Cost efficiency at universities is under scrutiny as employee salaries make up their biggest expense.
Vice-chancellors are urging calm and students are getting restless as they prepare for the minister’s announcement on next year’s fee increase.
The #FeesMustFall movement needs to steer clear of misguided populisms and half-reasoned radicalism
Open letter to President Jacob Zuma, higher education minister Blade Nzimande, and finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
Learning to appreciate the value of money and how to manage it effectively could be very beneficial.
The state can introduce free higher education but the money now derived from fees will have to be found elsewhere.
Sars will have a role to play in student education if some of the ideas put to the commission of inquiry are accepted.
UJ confirmed that the students have been suspended from today an will remain so until their disciplinary hearings.
The idea of fee-free university education is still on the table, say the vice-chancellors, if the fee component of the budget is made up.