Protesting Witwatersrand University students on Monday vowed to shut down the institution until their grievances were heard. This follows the university council refusing to address the thousands of students gathered at Senate House on Monday following an agreement on Saturday. Council said students had gone against the “spirit” of the[…]
Universities are struggling to cope financially due to a lack of student funding coming from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), hence the proposed fee increases, according the director of the Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN), Hendrick Makaneta. A wave of protests has swept across tertiary institutions throughout the[…]
BDS groups the world over took to the streets this past weekend in a wave of solidarity protests, amid an upsurge in violence in the occupied Palestinian territories. Under the banner #SolidarityWaveBDS, activists heeded the call of the Ramallah-based Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which leads the coordinates global boycott[…]
Wits University has suspended its decision to hike fees by 10.5% after an all-nighter to end a student protest. ”The University will suspend the decision on all fee increments made for 2016. There will be no fee increments until negotiations reach an agreement,” a university statement said. Spokesperson Shirona Patel[…]
Stellenbosch University (SU) students are planning a protest against a proposed 11.5% fee increase, the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) said on Friday. This comes days after similar action began at Wits University. “The SRC is fully aware that a decrease in the national subsidy to all universities resulted in this required[…]
Former Wits SRC president Mcebo Dlamini, known for his controversial Hitler remarks, has criticised Wits vice chancellor Adam Habib for not understanding the plight of protesting students, despite being black himself. Dlamini was addressing students during their third day of protest. “For the past three days, we were left with[…]
The protest at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) over fee increases has entered its second day with students saying they were not willing to back down. Wits student representatives’ council (SRC) secretary general Fasiha Hassan said the university “did not understand” the experiences and struggles of most of its[…]
Students were consulted a number of times on fee increases at Wit University, the institution said on Wednesday. This comes as students staged a protest at the university’s entrances on Wednesday morning, stopping students and staff from entering the varsity premises. The entrances have since been reopened. “Council made the[…]
Turkey has said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the prime suspect in the suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara as anger grows about the government’s inability to have prevented the attack. The twin bomb blasts at a peace rally on Saturday[…]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for calm on Friday as police prepared for clashes between protesters at a planned rally outside a Sydney mosque that was attended by a teenager who killed a police officer a week ago. Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, was shot and killed by police[…]
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