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NSFAS board chairperson Ernest Khosa. (OJ Koloti, Gallo Images)

NSFAS urges unpaid students to get accredited to avoid ‘ghost payments’

National Student Financial Aid Scheme implements new system to streamline financial support and root out fraudulent payments while thousands are awaiting for allowances

Frontrunner for ANCYL leadership post embraces Ukraine sanctions

Khulekani Skhosana says the sanctions are a ‘medal of honour’

Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command leader Sihle Lonzi. (X)

EFF Student Command leader Sihle Lonzi says Congress of South African Students ‘infiltrated by swindlers’

Media briefed on the resolutions and outcomes of the organisation’s fourth national students assembly that took place on Friday

Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.

Cape Town transport stabilised after two weeks of taxi violence

But despite the calm, rival taxi associations have not yet made peace in their turf war

Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzycka (Angie Lazaro)

Zuma: They must not provoke me

The former president says he is no longer constrained from making his own disclosures by occupying public office.

#FeesCommission: Dissatisfied students’ union vows to shut down universities

The panel tasked with probing the potential of free higher education has said they cannot prevent the government from implementing tuition increment.

Members of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.

Cosas promises swift action against teachers’ strike

Cosas has warned teachers aligned to Sadtu in Ekurhuleni they will be barred from returning to school if they embark on an intended march in the area.

‘True leader’ Malema addresses Implats strikers

Youth leagues in SA: A poverty of options

The ANCYL has over 500 000 members countrywide, but they don’t speak for all of the country’s youth. The <em>M&G</em> looks at alternatives.

Cosas won’t back Malema for second term

Cosas won’t back Malema for second term

The Congress of South African Students says ANCYL president Julius Malema is giving the youth a bad name and will not back him for a second term.

Cosas: No link between ‘hit back’ comments and stabbing

There’s no link between a pupil stabbing a teacher in Soweto and comments by Cosas on pupil retaliation, the provincial congress said on Friday.

Cosas: ‘Minister will run’ if prelims aren’t scrapped

Cosas has vowed to make the country “ungovernable” if the education department does not scrap matric prelim exams.