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    Fees Must Fall

    Disappointed but not surprised: the shortcomings of the Fees Commission report

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    The Fees Must Fall movement emerged in 2015 through university students who felt that higher education was an inalienable right no one should pay...

    We did not ask for loans, that is not free education...

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    Student Representative Councils (SRCs) from some universities across the country are rejecting the recommendations made by the Fees Commission report on the funding of...

    Universities are still studying the Fees Commission report

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    South African universities have welcomed the release of the Heher Commission report but are still deliberating its 750 pages before announcing what this means...

    Fees Commission report calls for removal of application and registration fees

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    The Fees Commission report found that while fee-free education across the board is fiscally irresponsible, doing away with application and registration fees isn’t. South Africans...

    #FeesCommission report: How TVETs win

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    Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions are the biggest winners according to the recommendations of the Fees Commission report. Universities will not...

    Fees Commission report: Ten things you need to know

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    On Monday, 13 November, President Jacob Zuma released the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training (the Fees Commission report). The...

    Disunity and confusion over Wits shutdown

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    Students at the University of the Witwatersrand are confused after the incoming Student Representative Council  (SRC) backtracked on its decision to shut the university...

    Book Extract: How the police spied on Fees Must Fall

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    Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw's new book, The President's Keepers, contains many explosive revelations about President Jacob Zuma's ties to underworld figures, his tax returns...

    UCT management: Students must protest legally to avoid criminal records

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    On Thursday morning, students from the University of Cape Town allegedly discarded faeces in one of the university’s science buildings. The UCT Computer Sci Building...

    We need to talk about the long-term effects of FMF on...

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    The effects of Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests are long-lasting and damaging to students' mental health and ultimately affect their academic performance. The Socio-Economic Rights...

    #FeesMustFall: Wits failed to provide healthcare and police targeted first responders

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    New report echoes the warnings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry and says police and schools must plan for protests.

    UCT granted interdict against disruptions, classes to resume from Wednesday

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    On Monday the University of Cape Town was granted an interim interdict by the Western Cape High Court against the disruption of university activities....

    Leaked Fees Commission report will not inform universities’ 2018 decision-making

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    Universities are eagerly awaiting the Presidency’s release of the Fees Commission report so that budgets can be tabled for 2018. Over the weekend, City Press...

    “Nothing less than free education” – Student leaders on leaked fees...

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    Some Student Representative Councils (SRCs) have decided to wait till the president releases the Fees Commission report rather that relying on the leak. On Sunday,...

    The Fees Commission Report will not ease #FMF

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    : The presidency released the Fees Commission report on 13 November 2017. First will come the outrage. Then the protests. Then more protests. The end to the...

    UFS withdraws private security, CPUT justifies it, and UCT heads to...

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    #FeesMustFall protests continued at the University of the Free State (UFS), University of Cape Town (UCT), and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). While...

    UCT students disrupt classes and join CPUT in a march to...

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    Students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Mowbray campus and the University of Cape Town (UCT) marched to Parliament on Wednesday. They...

    UCT SRC demands release of Fees Commission report, may march to...

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    Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are calling for the immediate release of the Fees Commission Report and a 0% fee increase...

    UCT students to host mass meeting on #FeesMustFall

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    A library on University of Cape Town’s upper campus was shut down and several lectures disrupted on Monday morning. The disruptions were carried out by...

    38 UFS students arrested last week to reappear in court in...

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    Thirty-eight students who were arrested by South African Police Services (SAPS) at the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Bloemfontein campus last week are...