Personal notes on #FeesMustFall: How things could have been different.
I remember it as if it was yesterday, the excitement to go to the university of Pretoria. For many reasons than one, this was...
South Africa has been downgraded by global rights index
Every year, the CIVICUS Monitor, a global rights index, provides an assessment of the conditions of civil society within countries. It looks at the...
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...
DUT EFFSC Blames Management For Fresh Disruptions
As the 'Sizofunda Ngenkani' campaign by the Economic Freedom Fighters Students Command is on at the Durban University of Technology, academic activities were disrupted...
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...
Kanya Cekeshe’s Bid For Freedom Will Be Taken To The High...
The fight for Kanya Cekeshe's release is not over. On October 14, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court denied bail and leave to appeal his conviction....
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...
ICYMI: Here’s what happened this week at SA universities
This week saw the return of protests and conversations around #FeesMustFall, NSFAS, various other student issues and police brutality.
Since the beginning of March students...
Public Statement Concerning #FeesMustFall Student Activist, Kanya Cekeshe
Public statement by former student leaders and members of the clergy and civil society concerning #FeesMustFall student activist, Kanya Cekeshe
We reproduce their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
