Reflections of the #FeesMustFall movement from TUT grounds
South Africa has been host to many protest and students uprisings - both in the apartheid era and the infamous post-apartheid rainbow nation era....
How The Coconuts Led The #FeesMustFall Revolution
Rekgotsofetse Chikane wants to tell the story of his experience of Rhodes Must Fall. That's the impression I get from the conversation I had...
Rebels & Rage: How Adam Habib Saw #FeesMustFall
The Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests that seized South Africa from 2015-2016 were a right mess. On the one hand, students were protesting for...
Students are walking from KZN to Gauteng for higher education
In 2019, Walk4Access, a group of people from the University of Pretoria (UP) walked from Cape Town to Pretoria. Their aim was to raise...
DUT: EFFSC-Led SRC Shows Unity As Protests Continue
NEWS ANALYSIS
The Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) is holding firm at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), in spite of several high-profile incidents...
SA Union Of Students Calls For Shutdown Of All Universities
The South African Union of Students (SAUS) has called for a national shutdown of the higher education sector. The shutdown is to "agitate the...
Justice Department Says “No” On Pardons For Fees Must Fall Activists
Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola addressed the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in parliament. He said he had been informed about the...
Blade Nzimande At Higher Education: It’s Back To “Square One” For...
NEWS ANALYSIS
During the period when Fees Must Fall gripped the South African campuses, then-higher education minister Blade Nzimande and the students were at...
#FeesMustFall 2015 as it happened from The Daily Vox’s archives
October 14, 2022 marked seven years since the beginning of the 2015 Fees Must Fall protests and movement by extension. While the protests formally...
The Support For Mcebo Dlamini’s Youth League Candidacy Is Gendered
Former Fees Must Fall (FMF) activist and student leader Mcebo Dlamini will contest for the position of African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) presidency...
Mthokozisi Ntumba who was killed by police at Wits protest was...
Mthokozisi Ntumba was killed by police during a protest outside Wits University this week. Following his death, the police minister Bheki Cele and other...
A new wave of activism is rising – a political awakening...
A moment of hope was born some seven years ago as students across South Africa joined together in their call for a free decolonised...
No data or support: the reality of learning through lockdown in...
The digital divide impacts on students’ academic success and wellbeing, but there are ways to save the academic year and support students’ mental health,...
#Recap: Funding and registration issues affecting students
On February 23, finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the 2022 budget speech. The minister announced that they are allocating an R32.6 billion for financial...
Memorandum: Youth Day Parade for Justice & Change
Dear Mr President, We want to have a future!
We – the youth – have addressed this memorandum to you and to every public servant...
Underreporting of student protests: A question of hierarchy
The news coverage of a select few university protests undermines and devalues student movements across South Africa. News coverage is vital in highlighting the...
“Everything Must Fall” Gets Fees Must Fall Completely Wrong
The Everything Must Fall documentary creates a single story of the Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement that swept South Africa from 2015-2016. Directed by...
Wits SRC: “Higher Education CACH system is giving students false hopeâ€
Monday was the first day of registration at the University of Witwatersrand, and it proceeded smoothly despite concerns that disruptions, intense crowds or stampedes...
Fees Must Fall and the hunger to be Human in our...
CHASING FREEDOM is a new book covering diverse histories of student movements in post-apartheid South Africa. The book takes note of the historical moment...
DUT’s New SRC Meets Old SBux Struggle
On Monday, the newly elected student representative council (SRC) at the Durban University of Technology forged ahead the S-Bux struggle in a protest that...