When we prioritise books over people, we only create new symbols...
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...
Disappointed but not surprised: the shortcomings of the Fees Commission report
The Fees Must Fall movement emerged in 2015 through university students who felt that higher education was an inalienable right no one should pay...
What we need to keep the #FeesMustFall movement alive
Movements are sustained upsurges of people against X. The key word here is "sustained". Will there even be a Fees Must Fall movement by February...
2017: A decisive year for #FeesMustFall
In 2017, the #FeesMustFall uprising is likely to face its most decisive moments yet, with mass protests periodically grinding South African universities across the...
Zuma’s free education plan will dump the costs onto academics
President Zuma dropped the bomb of all bombs on the FeesMustFall question on Saturday, declaring free and state-subsidised tertiary education. While the decision has...
The Fees Commission Report will not ease #FMF
: 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...
HETN urges Zuma to release Fees Commission, condemns 2018 fee increases
The Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) has urged President Jacob Zuma to release the Fees Commission report. The HETN also rejects unilateral fee increments...
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...
#FeesCommission report: How TVETs win
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions are the biggest winners according to the recommendations of the Fees Commission report. Universities will not...
The Fees Commission’s work is done, but fallists aren’t holding their...
The Fees Commission was due to complete their final report on the feasibility of free education at the end of June. On Thursday, Musa...
Bloody repression in Ethiopia and why #FeesMustFall should take notice
Over the past few months, students, in solidarity with farmers resisting land grabs in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, faced off with security forces...
Beyond FMF: The Self-Funders and Sole Breadwinners
South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons...
“Nothing less than free education†– Student leaders on leaked fees...
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,...
Icarus and the student movement
“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.â€
–...
10 study tips for exams in the time of #FeesMustFall
While the rest of the country celebrates jacaranda season, university students are reminded of the old saying - “When the jacarandas start blooming, exam...
A foray into the messy world of Fees Must Fall politicking
Behind one of the many buildings that dotted the Eskom Learning Centre in Midrand, a huge white marquee had been erected for the Higher...
DUT suspends classes following protest action
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...
WATCH: Daily Vox hangout with UCT vice chancellor Max Price
The #RhodesMustFall protests at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have entered their third week, and students continue to occupy the Bremner building, which...
The Fees Commission Report brings us no closer to justice for...
Almost four months after the Heher Commission completed its work and gave President Zuma its report, the fundamental issues raised by the #FeesMustFall movement...
Beyond FMF: Pulling families out of poverty
South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons...
