Fees Must Fall

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…

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu is etched into the history of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. On April 6, 1979, the apartheid government hanged him. Mahlangu was only 23-years-old when he was killed, falsely accused on charges of murder…

COMMENT To those who felt that the #ChristChurch attacks represented some white dude’s (supremacist) hatred of Islam and Muslims only, think again. White supremacy is intricately entwined with Islamophobia and Afrophobia. Both…

Former student leaders of the Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement are well on their way to Parliament. Wits University FMF leaders Nompendulo Mkwatsha and Fasiha Hassan have been named on the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party list.…

The top three political parties competing in the 2019 national elections have all released parliamentary lists, and all three have made important nods to youth leadership. However, that is no automatic guarantee that youth issues will be…

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.…

The Fees Must Fall (FMF) protests that seized South Africa from 2015-2016 were a right mess. On the one hand students were protesting for free, decolonised higher education using any and all means at their disposal. On the other hand the…

“We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” - Frantz Fanon Fanon tells us that we revolt simply because we can no longer breathe. That is the unfortunate reality of being a poor black child in UKZN. Many…

“I come from a family of 16 members and we all depend on my grandmother's pension. I'm frustrated because the same allowance I'm waiting for would assist back home,” protesting student Nomfundo Shabalala told the Daily Vox on Monday.…

At the memorial service of the Durban University of Technology student who was shot and killed by private security last week during a protest, the Economic Freedom Fighters provincial chairperson Vusi Khoza threatened ‘visits’ to the…

“We are concerned about developments on some campuses this week, especially reports of violence and intimidation,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa said during his second State of the Nation Address (SONA). Ramaphosa opened up the last…

The cracks within the government’s free education plan are showing. While the policy increased access to higher learning, it also introduced numerous administrative issues like an overburdened National Student Financial Aid Scheme…

The situation at Wits University is tense on Tuesday morning. There have been clashes between students and private security in Solomon House where students are protesting the backlog in registration and the lack of accommodation. By SHAAZIA…

Students at Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) in Durban have blamed student leaders for ignoring their concerns - as three higher education institutions in KwaZulu Natal announced on Tuesday that academic activities would be…

The party of the people has arrived or so say the Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party (SRWP). The political arm of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) launched in 2018. They are ready to contest the 2019 National…

On Monday, Fees Must Fall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile has been sentenced to three years house arrest under correctional services supervision and ordered to pay a R5,000 fine, or a three year jail sentence, suspended for five years, by the…

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is a funding loan system that been plagued by many problems. Delays in providing funds and not getting back to applicants about the application status were some of the problems. The 2017…

Rehad Desai is well known for his socio-political documentaries. The director presented us with Miners Shot Down which tracked what transpired between miners and mining management following the Marikana massacre in 2012. That was followed…

The Everything Must Fall documentary creates a single story of the Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement that swept South Africa from 2015-2016. Directed by Rehad Desai, the documentary attempts to tell the story of FMF from a Wits University…