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As student protests continue in KwaZulu Natal, in the background a game is playing out between competing student leadership organisations. The South African Students Congress (Sasco), aligned to the African National Congress, and the EFF…

First published: 16 November 2018 One of former president Jacob Zuma’s final acts as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) was to announce free education mandate during the ANC’s National Congress in December 2017.…

In spite of an agreement between the management of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and students meant to halt a new spate of protests at the institution’s four campuses reached on Tuesday, a new one flared up on Wednesday at Westville.…

The Student Representative Council (SRC) at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) says it is relieved that a series of protests over the sBux voucher system which rocked the institution last year can finally end. This, after the…

Dr Said Al Namrouti is a Professor at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) where he teaches management sciences. He also holds a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand. He is currently in South Africa raising awareness about the current…

Applications for the 2019 the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) will open in early September. This was confirmed by the department of higher education and training (DHET) on Thursday after it, together with Nsfas, briefed…

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…

Soheir Abdel Kader is an Egyptian film festival expert. Among her many career accomplishments and designations, she is the founder and president of both the Awladna International Forum for Arts of the Gifted and the Afro-Chinese Arts and…

Funding is perhaps the single biggest challenge facing women's shelters and anti-gender-based violence organisations in the country. The small amount of money government allocates to these organisations is not adequately costed for the…

As awareness of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians grows, more and more artists from across the world are joining the cultural boycott. Support for the cultural boycott and cancellations of performances receive very significant media…

Since the announcement by President Jacob Zuma in December of free education for the poor and working class, there’s been a lot of confusion surrounding how government would implement it. Besides plans for 2018, government have not…

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions are the biggest winners according to the recommendations of the Fees Commission report. Universities will not be receiving free education but the report recommends that…

The fees funding crisis in South Africa has encouraged the creation of new ways of crowdfunding and connecting students and funders. After the recent launch of Feenix, The Daily Vox takes a look at two more platforms that are changing the…

The #FeesMustFall protests highlighted that there are many students and families who are struggling to fund their university tuition. Some students, unable to get NSFAS loans, or bursaries and scholarships have taken up crowdfunding to…

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has raised R147 million for missing middle students but just how long can the university keep it up for? The Daily Vox takes a look at the issues with fundraising for higher education. The missing…

Three education students arrested at a protest on the Wits education campus on Tuesday have been released. The students were arrested because they allegedly violated the university’s court interdict which bars students from disrupting the…

While the #FeesMustFall movement pushes for free decolonised education, students who are unable to afford university are still left to source tuition fees wherever they can. Recently, some students have turned to online crowdfunding to…

Following weeks of uncertainty and frustration at many universities, which students and academics have attributed to National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) delays, The Daily Vox was finally able hold a private interview with the…

As the 2017 academic year begins, things haven't exactly gone smoothly. Protests broke out at Walter Sisulu University last week, and that at the Tshwane University of Technology this week. The Daily Vox rounds up what's been going on in…