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    Fees Must Fall

    Why now is the time for #FeesMustFall 2017

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    The Fees Must Fall movement would do itself and the country a great service to derive inspiration, in these unpredictable times, from the Latin...

    What the top three ANC presidential candidates say about free higher...

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    The African National Congress (ANC) national conference is just two months away. In December, the congress will gather to pick who could potentially be...

    CPUT: a militarised campus is the new norm

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    After weeks of ongoing tensions, four expulsions, petrol-bombed buildings, the resignation of a dodgy vice chancellor and the temporary closure of campus due to...

    HETN urges Zuma to release Fees Commission, condemns 2018 fee increases

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    The Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) has urged President Jacob Zuma to release the Fees Commission report. The HETN also rejects unilateral fee increments...

    SACP: #FeesCommission part of the reason why Blade Nzimande was removed

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    The South African Communist Party's (SACP) second deputy secretary general, Solly Mapaila, said on Tuesday the #FeesCommission report is partially the reason why former...

    Saftu still awaiting permission for a November general strike

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    Cosatu embarked on a national strike on Wednesday to protest corruption and state capture. The recently formed South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)...

    TVET college students say they aren’t getting their NSFAS transport allowance

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    Students at technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges say they’re facing an uphill battle with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)...

    University of Pretoria issues tender calling for private security on campus

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    The University of Pretoria (UP) is advertising a tender calling for the provision of “ad hoc crowd control services” on all campuses of the...

    Democracy and Delusion: old problems, new solutions

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    The Nkandla debacle, the Marikana massacre, Fees Must Fall, GuptaGate, Zuma Must Fall and daily service delivery protests - South African politics is a...

    UCT mass meeting: workers’ strike, interdict and possibility of shutdown

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    The University of Cape Town (UCT) has interdicted a South African Liberated Public Sector Workers Union (Salipswu) strike that was planned for Thursday morning....

    Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh talks decolonisation, democracy and delusion

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    Activist, rapper and author Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh spoke to The Daily Vox about his newly released project Democracy and Delusion. The project is two-part: a...

    If you were arrested during #FeesMustFall you might have a criminal...

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    People who were arrested during #FeesMustFall protests may be in for a nasty surprise when applying for jobs or international studies if it turns...

    Black Twitter trolled the EFF with #EFFFacts and it’s excellent

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    Black Twitter went after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with #EFFFacts - exaggerating the role the party has played in South African and even...

    As By Fire: Jonathan Jansen talks #FeesMustFall and victimhood

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    Former University of the Free State vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen’s latest book was released earlier this year. "As By Fire: The End of the South...

    DUT suspends classes following protest action

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    The Durban University of Technology has suspended lectures until Monday following a student protest on Tuesday. The protest was prompted by numerous issues from the...

    Frantz Fanon: father of decolonisation

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    Frantz Omar Fanon, the psychiatrist, revolutionary and father of decolonisation, would be 92 years old. Born on the French colony Martinique, the fifth of...

    Big business urged to step up and fill the gap between...

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    The Congress of South African Students (COSAS) has demanded (among other things) that the private sector be held accountable for the education of South...

    Med students at University of Zimbabwe evicted for protesting 100% fee...

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    Hundreds of protesting medical students brought the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to a standstill last week as they demonstrated against a fee hike that...

    ANCYL lobbying for free higher education by 2018 at ANC policy...

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    The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has called for free higher education by 2018. Despite the outcomes looking unfavourable for those calling for free higher...

    New online platforms seek to flip the search for university funding...

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    The fees funding crisis in South Africa has encouraged the creation of new ways of crowdfunding and connecting students and funders. After the recent...