Financial Exclusion
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The mirage of AI: South Africa’s reality check on the tech ‘utopia’
Automation, driven by artificial intelligence, threatens jobs for low-skilled and semi-skilled workers and these groups are also subjected to higher interest rates and…
Students have a democratic and constitutional right to protest. It is not illegal
The police’s actions at student marches seem to contradict that fact
Higher education shutdown looms as Nzimande scurries for funding solutions
Nzimande’s last-minute scramble to find funding for students has not stopped them from mobilising for a nationwide shutdown.
‘Why am I being shot?’ Witnesses describe last moments of man shot during Wits protests
The man was shot as police clashed with Wits students in Braamfontein. The protesters are demanding that no students be financially excluded
Man killed by police during Wits student protest
About 50 Wits students are blocking De Beer Street in Braamfontein, where a man was shot and killed by police during a student protest