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

Party political meddling threatens future of universities

Campuses elsewhere in Africa have seen the damage done by student activism influenced by political parties, a matter that has raised concern at South Africa’s higher education…

  • Nico Cloete
10 min read
‘This happens on a yearly basis, but this year the university did not have a plan,’ said Keneuwe Setai, treasurer general for the Wits SRC, who added that students had been sleeping in libraries, toilets and in the SRC office. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Varsity disruptions as students protest financial exclusion, accommodation shortages

Wits student leaders are calling for accommodation for returning students as UKZN protests delayed Nsfas funding

  • Gemma Ritchie
6 min read
LIS LANGE

Wanted: A new student politics

The work-in-progress of liberation requires students to muster a daily heroism.

  • Lis Lange
10 min read