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Niq Mhlongo’s Affluenza embraces South Africans’ lived experiences
South Africa's democracy has come a long way since its formative years. But twenty years on and there are still many issues which have...
Eusebius shows us we need academic justice as much as we need academic freedom
This is the prepared text of the 2016 DCS Oosthuizen Academic Freedom Memorial Lecture that was delivered by Eusebius Mckaiser at the university currently...
“It’s a shame that an African is asked for a permit to be in...
During the outbreak of xenophobic violence across KwaZulu Natal, some of the activists who tried to stop the attacks were threatened with violence or...
Student protests continue to light up campuses across SA
There’s been a lot of activity in South African universities and colleges this week. MBALI PHALA sums up some of the activism going down...
Rape culture at Wits and UCT: “In every space that I exist in, my...
The #RUReferenceList protests at the university currently known as Rhodes have ignited conversations around the way that rape culture at the institution is deeply...
The #RUReferenceList is testimony to the failures of the justice system for rape survivors
This week, a list circulating on Facebook named a number of men who are alleged to have committed acts of rape at Rhodes University....
What do South African students know about Palestine?
Across university campuses, student organisations are running demonstrations for Israeli Apartheid Week. The conflict between the two countries, which the week is focused on,...
On Nomboniso Gasa’s “multi-racialism apologia and infidelity of meaning”
I went back to the over 36-minute-long 702 interview between Nomboniso Gasa and Wanelisa Xaba. Due to a breakdown caused by an aggressive and...
Keep calm and let the students disrupt injustice: a response to Achille Mbembe
As township struggle seeps into elite spaces such as the university, many privileged academics and university managers have become terrified of what they perceive...
Those times Gareth Cliff pushed the limits and got away with it
South African self-styled “shock-jock†Gareth Cliff’s response to the #PennySparrow debacle and the ensuing debates on criminalisation of hate speech was to declare: "People...
10 Daily Vox stories that were read far and wide in 2015
The Daily Vox's most read stories are not necessarily the juiciest, the most newsworthy or the best stories on our site, but the ones...
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most privileged of them all?
Editor's note: Serena Crawford has now limited access to her Instagram account, so the embedded Instagram posts in this piece no longer work. Also, please...
“Higher education is not a privilege, it’s a constitutional right”
OFENTSE MAKGAE, 23, was recently awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to do his PhD at Oxford University in the UK in 2016. He told...
CPUT’s military challenge to protesting students
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's decision to move some of its exams to the Wingfield Military Base harkens back to the student protests...
Black Students’ Dissent On Afrikaans Campuses Is About More Than Just Language Policy
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...
At UCT management ignored workers’ #EndOutsourcing protest for years
On an ordinary Wednesday afternoon, a moment of history was made at the University of Cape Town. Workers and the university management signed a...
Let’s support the student movements – A message from a high schooler
In our coverage of the #WitsFeesMustFall protests this week, we've had opinions from lecturers, to Wits students, to our editors. This time, an anonymous...
Special editorial: The Wits protest is not just about university fees
The ongoing protest against fee increases at the University of Witwatersrand is not about the whim and fancy of students who feel entitled to...
Tell us why you support us – #WhyiVOX
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The Daily Vox started off as an experiment. When we first launched the project as South Africa Votes in January 2014, we anticipated...
Stellenbosch University answers to Parliament about racism allegations [video]
Stellenbosch University management on Tuesday appears before Parliament's portfolio committee on Higher Education and Training to report on its progress in bringing transformation to...
