Changing the names of buildings: Transformation or window dressing?
The Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall movements have raised important questions about whether we have truly African universities or whether our universities...
What happens to international students during Fees Must Fall?
The #FeesMustFall protests taking place across universities for the past four weeks have put international students in a difficult position. The Daily Vox asked...
Ntokozo Qwabe on disrupting whiteness and black people’s attachment to whiteness
NTOKOZO QWABE, who rose to global fame through leading the Oxford campus Rhodes Must Fall campaign does not hold back in firing bullets at...
Khampepe report finds black students and staff still feel “excluded” at...
On November 10, the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Racism at Stellenbosch University Report (Khampepe report) was publicly released. The 184 page report...
#RhodesWar: University disputes claims that it maliciously excluded anti-rape protestors
The students who were excluded by Rhodes University for participating in the #RUReferenceList protest in 2016 said the university was unjust in its decision...
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...
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...
38 UFS students arrested last week to reappear in court in...
Thirty-eight students who were arrested by South African Police Services (SAPS) at the University of the Free State’s (UFS) Bloemfontein campus last week are...
What Adam Habib forgets about his time as a student activist
Adam Habib recently penned an open letter to academics concerned about security measures taken at Wits University over the past week. HEINRICH BÖHMKE reminds us of...
High Court Ruling Forces NSFAS To Inform Students About Applications
On Tuesday, the High Court in Grahamstown ordered the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to communicate a decision to a Rhodes University student...
FMF 3.0: How Free Education Promises Fuelled The 2019 Protests
NEWS ANALYSIS
It's only March 2019 but there have already been no fewer than 10 students protests at campuses around South Africa just this year....
Meet NSFAS version 2.0: ISFAP
On Monday, the ministerial task team presented the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP) at the Fees Commission in Centurion.
The ministerial task team was...
Seven university protests around the world that resonate with #FeesMustFall
The Fees Must Fall protests have shaken up South African society and posed pressing questions about education, decolonisation and institutional culture on campuses. But...
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...
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...
#FeesMustFall at UCT: “It’s about time the students spoke”
Classes at the University of Cape Town (UCT) were suspended on Monday as students blockade roads leading into campus. Students are demanding an emergency meeting...
Big business urged to step up and fill the gap between...
The Congress of South African Students (COSAS) has demanded (among other things) that the private sector be held accountable for the education of South...
Professor Phakeng: “That day he was called a sellout. He just...
Following the death of University of Cape Town (UCT) health dean and world-class cardiology researcher, Professor Bongani Mayosi, allegations have emerged that the Fees...
How Zuma’s free education plan will affect NSFAS and universities in...
President Jacob Zuma’s sudden announcement of a new free higher education policy came as a surprise, not the least because it came just as...
Khaya Sithole: Students are too exhausted for FMF 2018
The government’s plan for free education looks awfully similar to the model that Wits students drafted with the help of prominent academic Khaya Sithole....
