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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,...
The story I never got to tell – of rape and torture by the...
The recent debates on Indian nationalism and anti-nationalism spurred by the belligerent ring-wing after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power have only...
20 Witsies have been detained for “flouting an interdict”
A group of 20 Wits #FeesMustFall activists have been arrested and taken to the Hillbrow Police Station on charges of contempt of court after allegedly contravening...
Protesters in Durban say a NSFAS rejection drove a student to suicide – UPDATED
On Tuesday, NSFAS issued a statement saying Lindelani Myeza, who is widely believed to have committed suicide due to a rejection from the state's student...
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...
What Adam Habib forgets about his time as a student activist
Adam Habib recently penned an open letter to academics concerned about security measures taken at Wits University over the past week. HEINRICH BÖHMKE reminds us of...
Hashtag, power to the people
We've become accustomed to seeing hashtags everywhere - from adverts to protest placards. TSHEPOÂ RAMONYALUOE ponders the ability of hashtags to change the course of...
Suspension of registration at Wits frustrates out-of-town students
Wits University suspended face-to-face registration on Tuesday following the return of the #FeesMustFall protests. Prospective and returning students were turned away and encouraged to...
Six protest songs that are anthems for revolution in SA
The student protests that swept the country this year were punctuated by the singing of struggle songs often older than the students themselves. With...
Seven WTF moments from Jacob Zuma’s presidency
Jacob Zuma's presidency has been filled with lots of surprises, in many instances leaving South Africans and the world bewildered. Here's seven times in...
This video of Mcebo Dlamini graduating will make your day
When you’re one of the most well-known student leaders in the country, what other way is there to graduate than by having people ululate...
Suspended students accuse UJ of criminalising campus protests
Suspended students at the University of Johannesburg have accused university management of heavy-handedness and of trampling the right to protests on campus, MBALI ZWANE...
Dear black man, do better
Some men are quick to speak out against racism, but perpetuate sexism and rape culture at every turn. PONTSHO PILANE is sick of it.
“Comrades,...
“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...
“In principle” outsourcing not enough for UCT workers
Workers won a major victory during the course of the #FeesMustFall protests, with UCT agreeing to insourcing in principle but there has also been...
Waiting for the #Brixton141 to be released, I learned to be a journalist
GOOLAM SAYNEDS was outside the Brixton police station on Saturday as protesting workers and students who were jailed on Friday afternoon were released. He learned...
UWC students reject latest agreement from management
Students at UWC have rejected it an agreement between the SRC and the Vice Chancellor. The agreement was seen as an important moment in addressing key...
Zero percent, the ANC and the new student movement
When Wits students decided to co-ordinate the #FeesMustFall protests from the corridors of the university's anthropology department, anthropology lecturer KELLY GILLESPIE was offered a...
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...
