University students across the country will protest against tuition fee increases in what they call a National Day of Action campaign on Wednesday. The students will be marching against the fee hikes of various institutions set for 2016. The South African Students Congress (Sasco) called on all students to embark[…]
Opposition parties have rejected the agreement to cap fee hikes at 6% for 2016, announced by Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande and university vice chancellors on Tuesday afternoon. DA spokesperson on higher education Professor Belinda Bozzoli said the agreement was “nothing more than a band aid solution that[…]
Two men who defied death, surviving rough seas and a run-in with a whale, have told of their harrowing experience after one was reunited with his family in Cape Town. The other, who is from France, spoke to his family on the phone after he was brought to shore. The[…]
Israeli forces early Wednesday morning shot and injured a Palestinian teen near the illegal Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank claiming she was carrying a knife, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Istabraq[…]
The Slovenian parliament passed legislation early on Wednesday that will give the army more power to help police guarding the state border as thousands of migrants flood into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off its border. The new legislation will enable the soldiers to control the border when[…]
Canada’s prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau said he told US President Barack Obama that Canadian fighter jets would withdraw from fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, without giving a timeline. Trudeau, who had promised to withdraw Canada from combat in the coalition fight against ISIL, said[…]
South African President, Jacob Zuma and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is hosting Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal this week for a four-day visit that has enraged Israel. The governing party has vowed to build a long-lasting relationship with the Palestinian Islamic group and signed a letter of intent[…]
The City of Cape Town has warned potential subsidised housing beneficiaries against paying money towards individuals who promise guaranteed housing opportunities. The City has launched an investigation into several cases where members of the public have been duped into forking out ‘placement fees’ for registration onto the housing database, with[…]
The SA Police Service (SAPS) has failed to meet several crime reduction targets it set itself for the period 2014/15. Police had set itself a target of reducing serious crimes by 2% from 1 826 967 to 1 718 191. But the overall number of serious crimes decreased by only[…]
Student leaders vowed to completely shut down all institutions of higher learning in the country on Wednesday. The students are demanding the scrapping of fees at universities. “We are going to shut down all institutions until management hears that we don’t want fees,” South African Students Congress (Sasco) Gauteng deputy[…]
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