“We’ve normalised that black people can be exploited”
The protests at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) against outsourcing of services continue to expose the working conditions of cleaners who often go invisible...
The chaos of history: form and #FeesMustFall
NEROLI PRICE was at Parliament when the #FeesMustFall protests got ugly. She tells us how she’s struggled to make sense of her lived experience...
Mido Macia and how SA became desensitised to police brutality
The tragic death of a person as a result of police brutality enrages the citizens. The incident becomes a prevalent topic. Those whose lives...
The media sells black pain: a woman’s experience from #FeesMustFall
The media has been criticised for the way it portrayed students in the #FeesMustFall protests as “ungrateful hooligans†but few have criticised the manner...
An open love letter to my comrade bae… or at least...
Wits academic, DANAI MUPOTSA, has a few words for all the comrade baes who have been participating in the recent student protests across South...
#FeesMustFall, higher education and the cycle of poverty
TARYN COOP, a teacher and Masters student in International and Comparative Education, describes the long journey four of her matric students took to get into university,...
“Being a student in South Africa comes with so much frustration”
After being financially excluded in her second year of study, SILONDILE CELE (20), from Adams in KZN, learnt that being a student at university...
Statement by academics at UJ about the university’s response to this...
The statement below was drafted by academics at the University of Johannesburg on Thursday, 5 November, the day before the mass arrest of students and cleaning...
When H&M came to SA and insulted everyone
International retail giant H&M set up shop in SA recently, with one store opened in Cape Town last month and one in Johannesburg just...
“University fees make it impossible to fulfil your dreams”
The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation, a program that funds students from rural areas to study health sciences, may no longer be able to fund...
#FeesMustFall: I hope you are uncomfortable
In some quarters, the recent #FeesMustFall protests have been all consuming. And in others, the silence has been deafening. ISHAY GOVENDER-YPMA explains why she...
“It is unfair to call only for the Indian community to...
AÂ Durban-based Muslim lobby group this week called on members of the Indian community to learn Zulu in order to break down cultural barriers and...
Black Students’ Dissent On Afrikaans Campuses Is About More Than Just...
The student movements that emerged at Tuks, NWU-Pukke and Stellenbosch University (SU) in the days before #FeesMustFall protests, challenged the privileges of whiteness at...
Uzalo spices it up with drug dealing and baby daddy drama
The past few weeks have been dragging on for Uzalo viewers, but the telenovela is still the talk of the town after producers decided...
#FeesMustFall made history, but are we ready to accept the trade-offs?
Every year around the third week of October, when the Mother City’s homeless no longer have to weather the rain and wind, the minister...
Did NWU Potchefstroom create a terrible time machine?
While 80s movie fans from across the world observed Back to the Future Day on the day 21st of October, a small group of...
Considering the costs of a continued shutdown at Wits
Fee hikes for 2016 fell on Friday but by Saturday Wits students, who believe their demands have not been adequately addressed by President Jacob Zuma,...
In Palestine, it’s university students leading resistance against the status quo
Since 1 October, at least 52 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israelis in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Nine Israelis have also...
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...
Is #WitsFeesMustFall an opportunity to change South Africa’s future trajectory?
Economist AALIA CASSIM says the protests at Wits last week are a reminder that greater access to higher education is key to achieving a...
