Nsfas spokesperson: Nsfas is now a free education provider
As part of the government’s new free education commitment, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) will be granting bursaries instead of loans to...
Med students at University of Zimbabwe evicted for protesting 100% fee...
Hundreds of protesting medical students brought the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to a standstill last week as they demonstrated against a fee hike that...
It is the system itself that is violent
Sam Van Heerden says that if we do not see the hypocrisy in raging against damage done to property while being wholly indifferent to the...
Student Leaders On How Robert Sobukwe Influenced Fees Must Fall
The 27th of February marks 40 years since the death of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founder Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. He was originally a part...
Discord at Higher Education National Convention results in postponement of event
There were scenes of pandemonium at the opening of the Higher Education National Convention that took place in Midrand on Saturday. After a number...
Black Twitter trolled the EFF with #EFFFacts and it’s excellent
Black Twitter went after the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) with #EFFFacts - exaggerating the role the party has played in South African and even...
Student leader Bonginkosi Khanyile aces studies while in jail
He sat in his prison cell in yellow “detainee remand†pants and shirt.
The prison warders didn’t use his name; they simply said “prisonerâ€. But...
Should NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o have asked white people to leave his...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of Africa’s most influential and celebrated scholars of decolonialism. His series of public lectures taking place at universities around...
Dear Adam Habib, I’m sorry some tweets hurt your feelings
Dear Professor Habib
Twitter is an interesting platform. It allows a university, such as yours, to communicate with students in a slightly more casual way...
Special editorial: The Wits protest is not just about university fees
The ongoing protest against fee increases at the University of Witwatersrand is not about the whim and fancy of students who feel entitled to...
#FeesMustFall made history, but are we ready to accept the trade-offs?
Every year around the third week of October, when the Mother City’s homeless no longer have to weather the rain and wind, the minister...
Open letter to Pravin Gordhan urges him to take responsibility in...
In an open letter to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, head of department of anthropology at Wits, Dr Kelly Gillespie, expressed her disappointment that Gordhan...
Students Are Walking From Cape Town To Pretoria For Access To...
A group of 13 people, including a pastor, a lawyer, and members of the University of Pretoria (UP) student representative council and other students...
This is what Julius Malema had to say about #FeesMustFall
Minutes before he was served papers to appear in court on charges of trespassing and riotous assembly related to alleged actions in 2014, the Commander...
Questions must be asked about tactics of coercion during #FeesMustFall
Speaking at a specially convened imbizo in Johannesburg on Monday, President Jacob Zuma once more referenced the death of a worker at Wits University...
The media sells black pain: a woman’s experience from #FeesMustFall
The media has been criticised for the way it portrayed students in the #FeesMustFall protests as “ungrateful hooligans†but few have criticised the manner...
On Graduate Unemployment: “We Were Promised That Education Would Free Us...
Thousands of recent graduates in South Africa are stuck in the rut of unemployment despite the thousands they pumped into their educations. They are...
#FeesMustFall: Wits failed to provide healthcare and police targeted first responders
New report echoes the warnings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry and says police and schools must plan for protests.
Why now is the time for #FeesMustFall 2017
The Fees Must Fall movement would do itself and the country a great service to derive inspiration, in these unpredictable times, from the Latin...
#StandWithJNU and #FeesMustFall: The reemergence of the student movement
It is young people, in India, as in South Africa, who may be our last hope. As the fervour of revolt spreads, it is...
