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    Fees Must Fall

    Here’s what happened in week 2 of #FeesMustFall2016

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    In the second week of the 2016 re-emergence of the Fees Must Fall campaign, we saw shutdowns, clashes with private security and just about...

    The grand delusions of a UCT Law Dean: Penny Andrews equals...

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    A group of concerned black law students and alumni at UCT has released a statement regarding the UCT Law faculty's attitude towards protests and...

    These are the divisions separating students in the #FeesMustFall movement

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    The Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement which has re-emerged at universities nationwide has been criticised for being disjointed. But to understand why students have...

    All eyes on Wits following a worker’s death during #FeesMustFall protest

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    Fasiha Hassan, spokesperson for the SRC at Wits University, says students are deeply saddened by the death of a worker during the ongoing protests...

    #FeesMustFall & more: The latest on student protests this week

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    University of Kwa-Zulu Natal On Tuesday night, after students at Howard College UKZN assembled to discuss their protest action, a voice note was shared on...

    We asked academics to weigh in on the #FeesMustFall debate

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    Speaking to the media on Thursday, Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, said he didn’t feel as pressured by the current...

    Five #FeesMustFall activists on the future of the movement

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    With so much action going on at universities this year, it’s hard to keep up with what the different Fees Must Fall movements at...

    Here’s how we can achieve free higher education by 2019

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    Professor ARI SITAS believes free tertiary education is possible for students in South Africa and should be implemented by 2019. Sitas answers six questions...

    We need to be asking why people burn shit down

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    JARED SACKS asks us to suspend our anger, judgement and moralising over the burning of property at UKZN this week, and ask why someone...

    When we prioritise books over people, we only create new symbols...

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    A library went up in flames, and it’s all some of us can think about. For those who attended UKZN, like myself, it's personal. These...

    We Won An International Award For Our Work During #FeesMustFall

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    The Daily Vox, at two years old, has been awarded a silver prize in WAN-IFRA's World Young Reader Prize in the public service category...

    UWC students respond to Prof Xolela Mangcu

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    Self-indulgent Professor Xolela Mangcu misread our protest, write Nangamso Bomvana, Ncedisa Mpemnyama and Marx Mtoto. On Thursday the 26th of May, the Centre for Humanities...

    Decolonisation must begin at schools

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    I am a student at the university currently known as Rhodes. Our struggle for decolonisation remains urgent, and unfulfilled. Meanwhile, the struggle for decolonisation...

    Ntokozo Qwabe on disrupting whiteness and black people’s attachment to whiteness

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    NTOKOZO QWABE, who rose to global fame through leading the Oxford campus Rhodes Must Fall campaign does not hold back in firing bullets at...

    There’s a world of difference between being offensive and being oppressive

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    As debate, not all of it polite, or cogent, rages on about Ntokozo Qwabe's refusal to tip a white waitress at Obz Cafe in...

    #StandWithJNU and #FeesMustFall: The reemergence of the student movement

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    It is young people, in India, as in South Africa, who may be our last hope. As the fervour of revolt spreads, it is...

    There’s a F***-up at Wits and management is having none of...

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    A Wits student, Zama Mthunzi, is due to appear before the South African Human Rights Commission this week for wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with...

    Bloody repression in Ethiopia and why #FeesMustFall should take notice

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    Over the past few months, students, in solidarity with farmers resisting land grabs in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, faced off with security forces...

    Keep calm and let the students disrupt injustice: a response to...

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    As township struggle seeps into elite spaces such as the university, many privileged academics and university managers have become terrified of what they perceive...

    What Adam Habib forgets about his time as a student activist

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    Adam Habib recently penned an open letter to academics concerned about security measures taken at Wits University over the past week. HEINRICH BÖHMKE reminds us of...