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Calls for aid relief for Durban Floods has been made, this after hundreds of people were left displaced by devastating torrential rains that swept through KwaZulu-Natal early this week. Communities together with different stakeholders…

Economic Freedom Fighters president Julius Malema has called for, Sesiyanda Godlimpi, the SRC president at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) to fight for accommodation fit human living, for African students within the institution. …

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 said student protests were most likely to continue, this after the minister of higher…

NEWS ANALYSIS It’s only March 2019 but there have already been no fewer than 10 students protests at campuses around South Africa just this year. Violence is once more normalised on campuses with a student killed during the 2019 protests.…

Across university campuses, student organisations are running demonstrations for Israeli Apartheid Week. The conflict between the two countries, which the week is focused on, is one that has spanned many years in far-off places. Even so,…

Last Friday, Lindelani Myeza – a first year Durban University of Technology Management Sciences student – jumped to his death after allegedly receiving an SMS notifying him of his unsuccessful application for NSFAS. The financial aid…

Investigations into the death of student Durban University of Technology student Lindelani Myeza are underway but university management and student leaders have declined to reveal details about the incident at this stage. Police say…

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 loan service, was in fact approved for funding. "NSFAS can confirm that at the…

A couple of weeks ago, the Zulu language paper Isolezwe set tongues wagging with a story about the use of snuff by students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). LIZEKA MADUNA looks at why a bit of tobacco can cause so much scandal.…

The Durban University of Technology (DUT) Drama department recently presented  a production of the House of Hunger, an adaptation of Dambudzo Marechera’s prodigious short story collection, directed by Roel Twijnstra. TINY MUNGWE went to…

Tensions are simmering at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) with ongoing student protests over financial aid. QINISO MBILI was on the ground to find out more.  On Tuesday, both registered and unregistered students marched from…

Durban University of Technology (DUT) students took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against a financial aid bureaucracy that they perceive as erratic. Registration at DUT opened in mid-January, but thousands of students remain…