Though the word ‘shelter’ is equated with a safe space, in reality it is often the opposite
The EFFSC and UJ’s student representative council are prepared to assist people to find alternative placements at other higher education institutions.
Students and lecturers say discrimination is endemic, but VC Adam Habib says the claims are ‘nonsense’ and ‘fake news’
The SACP general secretary says that part of the reason he was removed as minister of higher education specifically related to the fees protests.
Masebe rejected claims EFF leader Julius Malema is instructing EFF students on protests, saying the EFFSC is "autonomous".
The institution will not renew its contract with the under-fire firm.
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"​Former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene was named interim director of the Wits Business School late Friday."
Students should look into broadening the fight for free education into a movement to help fight other struggles in society
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The students barred vehicles and pedestrians from entering and exiting the campus grounds as they protested the ‘lack of services’ at the university.
The vice-chancellor and principal of the university has made "significant contributions" to the institution’s growth and sustainability
The university’s vice-chancellor, Professor Adam Habib, encouraged people who experienced or witnessed gender-based harm to report such incidents.
The university says it had consulted the institution’s student representative council before making the decision.
The university said the policy ‘seeks to protect students from sexually predatory lecturers’.
The story echoes Dlamini’s first arrest, where police officers took him from his residence in the early hours of the morning.
The South Gauteng High Court on Monday dismissed their bid to force the institution to allow students writing deferred exams to remain in residences.
Wits Fees Must Fall student leader Catherine Seabe said on Tuesday she would meet with one of the people responsible for the anti-Semitic messages.
‘We are continuing to shut down universities,’ Wits SRC president Kefentse Mkhari said.
Motorists were advised to use alternative routes after people started throwing rocks at vehicles.
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Protesting students at the University of Witwatersrand clashed with police after they disrupted classes and tests on Thursday.
Student leader Vuyani Pambo said Habib could not form part of the peace talks at the church while police were arresting students on campus.
Wits and the surrounding area saw more protests this weekend than any other during the course of the last five weeks.
Wits #FeesMustFall leaders have been warned that police are looking for them
Father Graham Pugin, who had his hands raised in the air, was struck on the mouth by a rubber bullet at the entrance of the church.
Mcebo Dlamini – leading the vanguard of the #FeesMustFall movement at Wits – has vowed to ensure that the institution remains closed.
Despite negotiations, the University Of Witwatersrand released a statement saying the much anticipated general assembly would be postponed
Students have said that a general assembly would provide a more realistic platform for members of the university community to share their views.
The acting national police commissioner says police officers must exercise maximum restraint during #FeesMustFall protests.
Violence has erupted at Wits University once more after police opened fire on protesting students earlier this morning.
Police have fired stun grenades to disperse protesting Wits University students near the institution’s Solomon Mahlangu House on Tuesday morning.
The University of Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town are expected to resume academic activities after weeks of protests.
The University of the Witwatersrand has suspended all academic activity for the rest of the week, it announced in a statement on Tuesday night.