The Origins Of The South African Students Organisation
BOOK EXTRACT
During 2015 and 2016 student protests swept across South Africa campuses. In her new book Limpopo’s Legacy: Student politics and democracy in...
KZN Campuses Quiet Since Historic Debt ‘’Write Off’ Announcement
In spite of promising to continue protesting, for the past two weeks it's been quiet on campuses. Student leadership in universities in KwaZulu-Natal had...
Solomon Mahlangu’s Legacy Lives On
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu is etched into the history of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. On April 6, 1979, the apartheid government hanged him. Mahlangu...
Will Student Leaders Make An Impact In Parliament?
Former student leaders of the Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement are well on their way to Parliament. Wits University FMF leaders Nompendulo Mkwatsha and...
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...
Blade says student leaders threw him under the bus
At a specially convened meeting of students, government and university management on Monday, Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande accused student leaders of duplicity.
"What...
Translating Jonathan Jansen’s Political Doublespeak
On Tuesday, University of the Free State (UFS) Vice-Chancellor Jonathan Jansen broke his silence on the violence at the Varsity Cup game on the UFS...
UFS Student Describes Violence After Monday’s Rugby Match Disruption
Protests against outsourced workers hit the University of Free State on Monday night when protestors disrupted a rugby match on the campus. Things quickly...
Anger Grows In Aftermath Of UFS Rugby Race Incident
There has been an outpouring of rage after black protesters were attacked by spectators and players at a rugby game a varsity game at...
They Beat Us up Because We Disturbed Their Rugby Game
On Monday afternoon a group of protesters allegedly interrupted a rugby game at the University of Free State in a bid to draw attention...
UCT’s transformation assembly: the future is a lot faster than your...
On Wednesday night students, staff and UCT management met in Jameson Hall for a university assembly to address the issue of the Rhodes statue...
WATCH: Daily Vox hangout with UCT vice chancellor Max Price
The #RhodesMustFall protests at the University of Cape Town (UCT) have entered their third week, and students continue to occupy the Bremner building, which...
NSFAS: A necessary struggle for many students
In many South African universities, tuition fees are high and continue to skyrocket on a yearly basis. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)...
Ari Sitas: “June 1976 was a point of no return”
ARI SITAS, sociology professor at UCT, reflects on the events of June 1976 and what it meant to be a young person then.
I was...
