Extract: Adam Habib On How #FMF Peace Talks Broke Down
October 2016 was a tense moment for Fees Must Fall. Students were protesting, police were making arrests, and universities were burning. Various peace talks...
“#FeesMustFall has shown us the power of the youth”
President Jacob Zuma announced a freeze on fee increases at South African higher education institutions on Friday. And as student movements across the country...
A change is going to come: on the right to peaceful...
A lot has been said recently about the right to protest and the right to assembly, but what irks me is how participants who...
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,...
UCT SRC demands release of Fees Commission report, may march to...
Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are calling for the immediate release of the Fees Commission Report and a 0% fee increase...
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...
#FeesMustFall and how it showcased Indian South African privilege
Apartheid paradigms of race and class still cast a shadow over certain segments of the South African, Indian, Muslim community, and the Fees Must...
#FeesMustFall: UCT slaps protestors with court interdict
The University of Cape Town was on Monday afternoon granted a court interdict preventing student protestors from "disrupting or otherwise interfering in any way...
A luta continua at the University Currently Known As Rhodes
On 6 December, the Council of the University Currently Known As Rhodes (UCKAR) publicly announced that it would not be changing the institution's name,...
It’s been 7 years since “Rhodes fell” – here’s how it...
April 9, 2022 marked seven years since the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from its plinth at the University of Cape...
Keep calm and let the students disrupt injustice: a response to...
As township struggle seeps into elite spaces such as the university, many privileged academics and university managers have become terrified of what they perceive...
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...
Feenix helps university students rise from the ashes of high fees
The #FeesMustFall protests highlighted that there are many students and families who are struggling to fund their university tuition. Some students, unable to get...
As universities attempt to reopen, police clash with #FeesMustFall protesters nationwide
On Monday, universities that had previously been closed were expected to resume academic activity. However, Monday saw all sorts of mayhem. From rock throwing,...
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...
UCT students to host mass meeting on #FeesMustFall
A library on University of Cape Town’s upper campus was shut down and several lectures disrupted on Monday morning.
The disruptions were carried out by...
A prayer for Wits, in four verses
The University of Witwatersrand will reopen on Monday 10 October, amidst more security, and a continuing impasse between students and management. Wits academic DANAI MUPOTSA is saying a...
Saftu still awaiting permission for a November general strike
Cosatu embarked on a national strike on Wednesday to protest corruption and state capture. The recently formed South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)...
#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.
UWC students respond to Prof Xolela Mangcu
Self-indulgent Professor Xolela Mangcu misread our protest, write Nangamso Bomvana, Ncedisa Mpemnyama and Marx Mtoto.
On Thursday the 26th of May, the Centre for Humanities...
