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Campus protests – updates [26 October]
Student protests, arising from the #FeesMustFall movement, are continuing into their third week. Things are moving quickly at campuses around the country and the Daily Vox...
A change is going to come: on the right to peaceful protest and its...
A lot has been said recently about the right to protest and the right to assembly, but what irks me is how participants who...
#NationalShutDown: Live blog [CLOSED]
17:57, JOBURG As students come down from their earlier high over the 0% fee increase, to deal with marauding groups of people blocking roads...
“The desperation that comes with being a student is unimaginable”
The recent #FeesMustFall protests at universities across South Africa follow from the September  protests that took place at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN)....
Free higher education: The biggest raise our mothers will ever receive
Poverty and marginalisation is a "revolving door" at Wits, which must be militantly disrupted if we are ever to get away from the normalised pain...
#Rhodes student: “We can’t compromise with this fee increase”
It's the second day of the #RhodesMIPMustFall protest and it's currently 31 degrees in Grahamstown. Protesters sit in the shade of the barricade they...
Police use teargas and stun grenades to evict #UCTShutdown students from Bremner Building
Dramatic scenes erupted at the University of Cape Town in the late hours of Monday night when riot police stormed students out of Bremner...
Victory for Wits students as fee hike is suspended
In the early hours of Saturday morning, the call for #WitsFeesMustFall was heeded by executive members of the Wits Council – for now at least.
"The...
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...
Three moments from the #WitsShutDown that gave us the feels
On Wednesday, Wits University students protested against the 10.5% fee increment that is proposed for 2016. What started off as a protest with less...
Black Student Movement occupies Rhodes University offices
Questions of transformation in higher education are again in the spotlight, this time at Rhodes University, where the Black Student Movement (BSM) camped out...
Xenophobia: We Will Reap What We Sow
There's been a lot of middle-class hand-wringing about recent events, from the toppling of Rhodes to the latest outbreak of xenophobic attacks. But complacent...
Destroying homes and communities for MyCiti transport
Twenty-six families in Cape Town’s Wynberg and Plumstead suburbs could lose their homes as the City of Cape Town prepares to build a MyCiti...
Are you happy with where your taxes are going?
In his annual budget speech on Wednesday, finance minister Pravin Gordhan presented a budget which relieved personal income tax, increased social grants and university subsidies and promised to upgrade commuter rail services. At the same time, he increased sin taxes and the fuel levy. AAISHA DADI PATEL and ZAINUB DOCKRAT went out to hear what the people of Johannesburg are saying about it.
