UKZN: Poor Black Students Still Face Harsh Discrimination
"We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe." - Frantz Fanon
Fanon tells us that we revolt simply because we...
Government Must Force Universities To Transform
It's been 22 years since the passing of Higher Education Act, Act 101 of 1997 and Education White Paper 3: A Programme for the...
Students Stranded In Durban After MUT Shuts
"I sent my kids to the university to study, and not come home in a coffin. After witnessing harsh treatment of students in one...
MUT Students Force Campus Shutdown
"I come from a family of 16 members and we all depend on my grandmother's pension. I'm frustrated because the same allowance I'm waiting...
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...
Harassment, Scuffles Break Out At Wits Hunger Strike
The situation at Wits University is tense on Tuesday morning. There have been clashes between students and private security in Solomon House where students...
MUT: Students Blame SRCs For Campus Violence
Students at Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in Durban have blamed student leaders for ignoring their concerns - as three higher education institutions in...
Fees Must Fall’s Bonginkosi Khanyile Vows To Continue Fighting After Sentencing
On Monday, Fees Must Fall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile has been sentenced to three years house arrest under correctional services supervision and ordered to pay...
Why I Made Everything Must Fall – Rehad Desai
Rehad Desai is well known for his socio-political documentaries. The director presented us with Miners Shot Down which tracked what transpired between miners and...
Decolonised Education Means Giving Poor Students Fair Use Of Textbooks
We need to update our copyright laws to allow poor students fair use rights of textbooks, which remain prohibitively expensive for most, writes THABISO...
PYA Reclaim Wits And EFF Tentatively Take UJ in 2018-2019 Student...
Student politics is especially thrilling this year, in anticipation of the 2019 national elections. University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and University of Johannesburg (UJ) students...
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...
FMF Leaders Question The Ethics Of Fasiha Hassan Accepting International Peace...
Former student leader and current member of African National Congress (ANC) communication team Fasiha Hassan has been awarded the Student Peace Prize (SPP) for...
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...
Political Parties Weigh In On The Fees Must Fall Amnesty Debate
Political parties debated the call for blanket amnesty for #FeesMustFall (FMF) activists at a National Assembly plenary sitting. In spite of the announcement of...
SA Students: “Grant FMF Activists Blanket Amnesty”
It's been almost a year since then-president Jacob Zuma announced free tertiary education, legitimising the call of South African students. However, a number of...
FMF Activist Calls For Fees Must Fall TRC, All Protest-Related Charges...
During the 2015 and 2016 Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests, many student activists were charged with public violence and destruction of property. Even after...
NSFAS Is On Its Knees
The chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) Sizwe Nxasana announced on 9 August that he was resigning from the funding body....
Univen Students Shutdown Campus Over NSFAS Problems
The shutdown at the University of Venda (Univen) continues even as the university announces academic activities will resume August 13. For the past week...
UCT BAC Demands Thorough Investigation Into Prof Mayosi’s Death
On Friday, the University of Cape Town announced that they were in the process of an inquiry into the death of the dean of...
