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

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

  • Bongeka Gumede
2 min read
Students block Johannesburg roads in protest over university fees. Students took to the streets of Johannesburg early on Monday to continue their protests about fees as 26 universities across SA braced for a national shutdown. Students, countrywide, demonstrated demanding that those who are in debt be allowed to register and that historical debt be wiped out. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
ANC

Teargas, bleeding knees and burning tyres: A day in the protest for free higher education

Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday

  • Bongekile Macupe
8 min read
ANDILE NONGOGO

‘It is so hard being a black and broke’: How access to NSFAS funding involves privilege, luck

Thousands of students are anxiously awaiting for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to respond to their funding applications as registration at institutions draws to a close

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read
High spirits at the EFF National People’s Assembly. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COUNTRY

Thousands of insourced workers counted among EFFSC wins

The student wing rose to prominence during the Fees Must Fall movement, which was accompanied by the call to end outsourcing at universities

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Kanya Cekeshe is one of about 9% of prison inmates who fall under the special dispensation
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Fees Must Fall activist Kanya Cekeshe has been denied bail

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

  • Malcolm Sekgothe
1 min read