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...
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...
Five #FeesMustFall activists on the future of the movement
With so much action going on at universities this year, it’s hard to keep up with what the different Fees Must Fall movements at...
Blade Nzimande: What His Return Means For Higher Education
The last time he was the higher education (DHET) minister he said “students must fall” and dismissed the student movement. Now Dr. Blade Nzimande...
An open letter to UJ Vice Chancellor Ihron Rensburg
A University of Johannesburg (UJ) student was shot and killed by a security guard at an accredited residence on Saturday. Students link the killing...
#FeesMust Fall: Rhodes students join forces with Eastcape Midlands FET students
Protesters at Rhodes University have now joined students at Eastcape Midlands College, an FET college in Grahamstown, who have been on strike for the...
A Luta Continua: Youth Day Is Futile For Young South Africans
The class of 1976 have inspired many uprisings and protests from what many people have termed "born frees". These youngsters have challenged our democracy...
Justice Department Says “No” On Pardons For Fees Must Fall Activists
Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola addressed the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in parliament. He said he had been informed about the...
Behind the scenes of Wits #FeesMustFall
This year's Fees Must Fall protests have been characterised by violent altercations between protesting students and private security or police. Â But there's a whole...
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...
Here’s what happened in week 2 of #FeesMustFall2016
In the second week of the 2016 re-emergence of the Fees Must Fall campaign, we saw shutdowns, clashes with private security and just about...
Blade Nzimande At Higher Education: It’s Back To “Square One” For...
NEWS ANALYSIS
During the period when Fees Must Fall gripped the South African campuses, then-higher education minister Blade Nzimande and the students were at...
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...
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...
UCT Fallists Respond to VC Phakeng
"We asked if Mr Mayosi has a history of depression and they said he didn't until 2016. That day he was called a coconut....
The #FeesMustFall movement needs to change tactics to avoid further isolation
Ntando Sindane believes that the student struggle for free education in South Africa is in danger of making the same mistake that many revolutionary...
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...
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...
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...
Reflections of the #FeesMustFall movement from TUT grounds
South Africa has been host to many protest and students uprisings - both in the apartheid era and the infamous post-apartheid rainbow nation era....
