Special editorial: the state of Fees Must Fall – 2016 edition
Last year this time, the Fees Must Fall movement was gaining momentum, barrelling towards a triumphant mass march on the Union Buildings, where it...
567 people have been arrested so far in #FeesMustFall protests
The South African Police Service (SAPS) have confirmed that there have been nearly 600 #FeesMustFall-related arrests over the past eight months.
#Fees2017 Lt General Phahlane...
What happens to international students during Fees Must Fall?
The #FeesMustFall protests taking place across universities for the past four weeks have put international students in a difficult position. The Daily Vox asked...
What are students demanding from #FeesMustFall?
Students around the country have taken to campuses and the streets to call for free education. However, student groups at different universities are not united...
On tactics and the future of #FeesMustFall at Wits
As Fees Must Fall protests across South Africa enter their fourth week, there is heightened tensions at Wits University following violent clashes between private...
Religious leaders in Durban march with students in support of #FeesMustFall
On Tuesday, students from various universities, including the Durban University of Technology and University of Kwazulu-Natal, marched to Durban's City Hall to hand over...
The complexities of borrowed privilege
Gosiame Legoale says that those who live in close proximity to privilege need to interrogate their behaviours.
Proximity to privilege comes with complimentary blinkers and...
President Zuma leaves out Pravin from a task team to deal...
In a statement released by The Presidency on Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma announced the establishment of  a Ministerial Task Team to resolve the current...
As universities attempt to reopen, police clash with #FeesMustFall protesters nationwide
On Monday, universities that had previously been closed were expected to resume academic activity. However, Monday saw all sorts of mayhem. From rock throwing,...
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...
Seven university protests around the world that resonate with #FeesMustFall
The Fees Must Fall protests have shaken up South African society and posed pressing questions about education, decolonisation and institutional culture on campuses. But...
South African activist Leigh-Ann Naidoo among captured on Women’s Boat to...
Israeli forces have intercepted the Freedom Flotilla Women's Boat to Gaza, with South African academic, activist and beach volleyball Olympian Leigh-Ann Naidoo sending out...
Questions must be asked about tactics of coercion during #FeesMustFall
Speaking at a specially convened imbizo in Johannesburg on Monday, President Jacob Zuma once more referenced the death of a worker at Wits University...
Leigh-Ann Naidoo’s diary on the Women’s Boat to Gaza: Day 6
Sunday, 2 October (Day 11, Sea Day 6)Â
Today watching the sun rise ahead of us a few things have become clearer to me. I...
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...
All eyes on Wits following a worker’s death during #FeesMustFall protest
Fasiha Hassan, spokesperson for the SRC at Wits University, says students are deeply saddened by the death of a worker during the ongoing protests...
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...
Here’s how we can achieve free higher education by 2019
Professor ARI SITAS believes free tertiary education is possible for students in South Africa and should be implemented by 2019. Sitas answers six questions...
Debating White Feminism Amidst White Tears
On Thursday morning Vashna Jagarnath, a lecturer at the University Currently Known as Rhodes, Nelisa Ngqulana, communications manager at Activate!, and freelance journalist Louise...
DA vs ANC: who is the true champion of white supremacy?
Welcome to the 2016 National slug match for the title of SA’s Guardian of Whiteness. When the EFF decided to vote in favour of...
