Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s announcement on Monday that universities will shoulder the responsibility for fee increments for 2017 has agitated the #FeesMustFall movement. VOC News journalist Rafieka Williams, a Wits ulumna, decodes Nzimande’s speech. In what many thought would be a decisive moment, Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande[…]
Employed graduates could be forced to pay graduates’ tax to help fund free higher education. Universities are facing financial collapse as government funding is reduced, the economy continues to stagnate and they struggle to collect fees from students. In the wake of the #FeesMustFall protests, a graduate tax is one of[…]
As most students across the Western Cape face financial and academic exclusion due to #FeesMustFall 2015 protests they are left with turbulent uncertainty. The UWC SRC demands that the historical debt of students be cleared. “Historical debt has always served as a barrier to students prohibiting from registering[…]
Student leaders walked out of a meeting with Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande in Johannesburg on Thursday. It was unclear whether the group had willingly left the venue or had been thrown out. They had spent hours locked in a meeting with Nzimande where they had planned to render their[…]
We will not stop until the ANC delivers on the promises it made 21 years ago. This was the warning from some of the leaders of the #FeesMustFall campaign on Wednesday during a media briefing. A small group of students gathered in the park opposite the entrance of the University[…]
The #FeesMustFall movement will be making a return in 2016 when it occupies the Wits University Solomon House on Monday, the first day of registration, the Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) has said. In a statement, the SRC said January 2016 saw students confronted with “a similar problem that we[…]
From the chaos in Parliament, signal jamming, load-shedding, water shedding, to Nkandla, Marikana and mass student protests, South Africans really saw it all this year. 2015 will go down as one of the most exciting, scary and outright crazy years in news. This week, we handed the baton over to[…]
“The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) cannot provide for all students who qualify academically for tertiary education and the reality is that being intelligent is just not good enough if you are poor.” This is the view of former Wits University SRC head, Shaeera Kalla, who responded to national[…]
Police killings, public order policing’s handling of the #Feesmustfall protests and the allegations of misconduct against suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega were highlighted in President Jacob Zuma’s reflections on the year. In his end of the year statement on Friday, Zuma said public order policing came under sharp focus[…]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande on Thursday met with student leaders at a round table discussion in Johannesburg where he apologised for his “students must fall” comment. Nzimande had come under massive criticism after a video emerged where he was heard saying if students don’t accept his offer regarding a[…]
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