In Pictures: Wits Protests Gender-Based Violence
Hundreds of Wits University students gathered at the Great Hall piazza to protest against gender-based violence and femicide. The protest is in response to...
Student protests 2021: What is happening at UFS?
Students at the University of Free State (UFS) have been protesting since the first week of March against a number of issues related to...
The EFFSC Is Going Nowhere
COMMENT
I am not going to argue the case for the Economic Freedom Fighters Students Command (EFFSC) WRITES SIYA NYULU. I have already done...
The eSwatini protests, explained
The people of eSwatini have been protesting against the king and the country's monarchical system. People from across the country have joined the protests...
Load shedding and food insecurity: The plight of students’ food insecurity...
According to Universities South Africa (USAF), one in three students do not make it to graduation. This is due to an array of realities...
Financial Exclusion Protests Continue At UKZN And DUT
Students in Durban institutions of higher learning are becoming more irate and vow to bring campuses to standstill if their concerns are not resolved...
NSFAS extends deadline for 2022 applications
On Thursday evening, January 6, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) announced they would be extending the deadline for applications. Applications for the...
UFS Medical Students Afraid To Work At Pelonomi Hospital
University of the Free State (UFS) medical students are concerned about their safety following several incidents of violence at the Pelonomi Tertiary Hospital in...
Fees Protests Shut UniVen
Update: Student from Univen has told The Daily Vox, the strike at the university has been called off. Students have given the university until...
Student protests: different year, different students – same old issues that...
There is no easy answer to the question. Books can be filled, hours can be spent debating it - and there still might be...
5 Things To Know About The New Wits VC
Wits University has a new vice-chancellor. On June 25, the university announced professor Zeblon Vilakazi will take over the position from Adam Habib from...
POEM: Let Us Not Forget
When we confront the creeping, crippling feeling- our momentum we may be losing,despite our trauma and our bruising.When it lingersand turns our fists into...
New Survey Shows South African Students Are Not Coping With E-learning
Youth Capital, a youth-led campaign with an Action Plan that combines data with young people’s lived stories to shift gears on youth unemployment have...
TL;DR: A roundup of SRC elections from across the country
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, politics must go on. Around the country, universities adapted the elections for the 2020/2021 student representative council...
Lack-cess to education – the cycle of abuse against South African...
Seven postgraduate students from Wits University’s Critical Diversity Studies department write about the perennial funding crisis in higher education in South Africa. They argue...
Smuts Hall at the University of Cape Town rebrands six years...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has approved the renaming of the Jan Smuts residence hall with immediate effect.
Read more: Mixed Reviews From Students...
#LGBQTILife: Navigating life in student leadership and the church as a...
We spoke to Lance-Selae August, a 27 year old student leader at UCT. They are an Honours student in Theatre and Performance, and identify...
NEWSFLASH: One person killed as police use force to disperse Wits...
One person was shot and killed amidst ongoing student protest action outside the Braamfontein campus of the University of Witwatersrand.
While details remain sketchy, one...
Magistrate Denies Kanya Cekeshe Bail, Leave To Appeal Conviction
“Why is the state hell-bent on keeping Cekeshe in jail,” asked Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi. It was a packed court at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court...
Wits Dental School students want safer training facilities
University of Witwatersrand (Wits) dental school students say they are in danger of being shut down. This is if they are evicted from Charlotte...
