Watching the Luister documentary, which captured some students’ and a staff member’s accounts of racism at Stellenbosch University, was “uncomfortable and disturbing”, says Vice-Chancellor Professor Wim de Villiers. The documentary was released last week. Prof de Villiers along with the university’s senior management team and the leadership of the Student[…]
At least one student was injured in a protest that turned violent at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute in Stellenbosch on Tuesday, as people who tried to enter lecture halls were sjambokked. ”This morning higher-certificate students locked a lecture hall for a test,” a student told News24. ”Management asked them[…]
Police hunting those responsible for Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a second foreign suspect on Tuesday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said. The Aug. 17 attack on a Bangkok Hindu shrine killed 20 people and injured more than 100. Fourteen foreigners were among those killed in a blast the military government said[…]
Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as European Union asylum rules came close to collapse under the strain of unprecedented migration. Around 1,000 people waved tickets, clapping, booing and hissing, and shouting “Germany! Germany!” outside[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has battled Syrian rebel forces in a southern district of Damascus, bringing ISIL fighters within about 5km of the centre of the capital. ISIL fighters on Monday night waged street battles against a loose coalition of Syrian rebels in Asali,[…]
With the start of Heritage Month, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) and the Department of Transport and Public Works have launched the brand new Cape Town Museum, located in the old Standard Bank building in Adderley Street. This 1880s heritage building is known to many as “the[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat In the wake of another Gupta-linked scandal involving a state of the art jet and Cyril Ramaphosa, which media exposed and covered extensively – rightly so – one wonders why the subdued attention given to the “Grabber”? No, its not to do with “grabbing” ladies’ behinds,[…]
Stellenbosch University is expected to brief Parliament’s Higher Education and Training portfolio committee on Tuesday on progress in implementing its transformation plan and language policy. This follows the release of a documentary entitled Luister (Listen), in which students tell of anti-black racism on and off campus. Minister of Higher Education[…]
The credibility of the Rugby World Cup could be damaged because of the South African government’s insistence on quotas, the FF Plus warned on Monday. “We would ideally like to see pressure being applied on the South African government to cease any future political interference in rugby and kindly request[…]
A group of EFF members disrupted classes at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute on Monday by locking students out of classrooms, the Western Cape Department of Agriculture said on Monday. “When we got there, a small group of [EFF members] had padlocked the classrooms and prevented students from attending classes,”[…]
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