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Gigaba: How government will fund free education to be clarified at 2018 budget

The Treasury had been engaging with credit ratings agencies about the possibility of a decision on higher education, says Gigaba.

Universities have stated the delay in payment of funds was having a detrimental effect on their cash flow.

The human cost of varsity debt

Five students tell of their struggles to get funding to make their career dreams a reality.

Chokehold: A England supporter is detained by authorities after violent clashes between England football fans and police in Marseille

​Civil society steps in to build an equal university education

Practical steps will help the National Education Crisis Forum resolve the fees issue and other problems.

Students march past the Radcliffe Camera during protest

South African students across the UK march in solidarity with #FeesMustFall

A march to the SA High Commission has been organised to demand that government prioritise the fees crisis in higher education.

Students who are part of the Rhodes Must Fall movement clash with police during a protest on February 16 2016 at the University of Cape Town.

​Appeal court ruling sets parameters for protest at universities

Students can protest vehemently but not violently and ‘f*** white people’ is an opinion, not a threat.

Meetings Africa is a great platform for SMMEs, which allows them to increase their business footprint both locally and abroad

‘Peace conditional on releasing students’

Students say Habib has been invited to address mass meetings ever since the protests began, but failed to show up.

South Africa has a low rate of arrests and convictions in farm attack and murder cases despite a national police policy to fight crime in rural areas, a report released on Tuesday has revealed.

​#FeesMustFall anthem is a historic modern spiritual

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Former Wits SRC president Shaeera Kalla will spend the night in hospital

Cops who shot Shaeera Kalla to be subject of investigation

The South African Police service said the case will be handed to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.

Mafika Gwala leaves behind a body of work that includes essays

#FeesMustFall leader Mcebo Dlamini to remain in police custody

The case against #FeesMustFall leader and former Wits SRC president Mcebo Dlamini was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

VUT students have grown increasingly frustrated with management’s actions of late.

VUT sees fire, as student leaders urge calm

In response to recent expulsions and suspensions, VUT students began another wave protests, demanding that students be allowed to return to campus.

Students leaders remained on campus to caucus and talk about their way forward as students went to hillbrow support the ones who were arrested.

#FeesMustFall: Wits management’s call for a meeting

Students leaders remained on campus to caucus and talk about their way forward as students went to hillbrow support the ones who were arrested.

#FeesMustFall: History of South African student protests reflects inequality’s grip

When several South African universities merged, it was hoped this would improve access and equality. It had the opposite effect.

Scenes of chaos: During a clash between students and police at the University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday an officer falls and a colleague fires rubber bullets at fleeing students.

State ‘advised varsity shutdown’

Academics are putting in place plans to help students write exams should universities shut.

The incident occurred during the third week of #FeesMustFall protests that have rocked universities across the country.

CPUT lecture disrupted after students fling faeces in the auditorium

Protesters disrupted a joint Swedish-South African chemistry lecture, flinging buckets of faeces in the auditorium.

Apple on Thursday removed an app criticised by China for allowing protesters in Hong Kong to track police. (AFP)

Decolonising our spaces as a matter of urgency

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Equal Education: Students are aiming at the wrong target and inadvertently protecting the government

Equal Education general secretary Tshepo Motsepe: "The only institution that can deliver free education is the government".

The Great Hall at Wits University. Photo: Supplied

​Wits university management agrees to mediated negotiations with students, campus to reopen on Monday

Students have said that a general assembly would provide a more realistic platform for members of the university community to share their views.

There has been a heavy police presence around Wits for the past three weeks.

WATCH: Mayhem at Wits after police release rubber bullets and stun grenades on students

Violence has erupted at Wits University once more after police opened fire on protesting students earlier this morning.

The Great Hall at Wits University. Photo: Supplied

77% of Wits students want to return to class on Monday, according to poll

Ongoing students protests over demands for fee-free education forced the university to shut down.

#FeesMustFall cost 18 varsities more than R460m in damage to property alone.

#FeesMustFall cost 18 varsities more than R460m in damage to property alone

This figure excludes the socioeconomic costs to the entire university community.