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It’s been almost a year since then-president Jacob Zuma announced free tertiary education, legitimising the call of South African students. However, a number of students who protested in Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement of 2015-2017 face…

“Growing up as a born free I was told there were a lot of things I could access - education, shelter, even food, sometimes. But I found them hard to attain,” writes Clinton Chauke in his debut book Born In Chains: The Diary Of An Angry…

“If South Africans are afraid of expropriating the land without compensation because of sanctions and backlash, then don’t vote for the EFF,” the Commander-in-Chief (CIC) Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said.…

During the 2015 and 2016 Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests, many student activists were charged with public violence and destruction of property. Even after Free Education became a government policy as of December 2016, those charges have still…

There’s a lot of things Clinton Chauke would describe himself as: social critic, fierce debater, Pan-Africanist. But despite being born in 1994, one label he flatly rejects is that of ‘born free’. Chauke is also the author of Born In…

The chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) Sizwe Nxasana announced on 9 August that he was resigning from the funding body. The higher education minister Naledi Pandor said applications for 2019 Nsfas would be…

On Friday, the University of Cape Town announced that they were in the process of an inquiry into the death of the dean of health sciences Professor Bongani Mayosi. Mayosi had died of suicide at the end of July. His death was met with a lot…

A male mining and engineering student from Wits University passed away on Thursday night following a fall from a building in Braamfontein. According to an email sent to The Daily Vox by the university, the incident happened just after…