With an estimated 30 000 students already gathered at the Unions Buildings in Pretoria in support of the Fees Must Fall campaign, local relief group Gift of the Givers (GOTG) distributed supplies to protesters. The non-profit organisation supplied students with refreshments, as well as aid for those injured during the[…]
South African Police Services (SAPS) officials must respect the constitutional right of students to protest and should act within the framework of the law when trying to contain protests from getting out of hand, according to Western Cape MEC for Community Safety, Dan Plato. Students across the country have been[…]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande withheld for three years a report that found free university education was viable, the Mail & Guardian reported on Friday. Nzimande received the study in December 2012 from a working group he appointed in 2010. The group, chaired by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University vice-chancellor Derrick[…]
Gift of Givers will provide nourishment for university students as they head to the Union Building to be addressed by President Jacob Zuma on increasingly high university fees on Friday. Give of Givers head Imtiaz Sooliman said the organisation will provide support to hungry students in the form of drinks,[…]
Hundreds of academics who are in solidarity with protesting students across South African institutions have called the situation that has gripped the nation a crisis that government and vice chancellors need to urgently resolve. This is in stark contrast with Higher Education Minister Minister Blade Nzimande’s statement that the national[…]
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been shutdown due to ongoing protests against proposed fee increases. A nationwide fees hike protest has hit UCT hard, with all lectures, academic operations, library facilities and transport services either shut or suspended until the protests simmer down. “No one can come to[…]
Rhodes University in Grahamstown has shut as students’ protests over fee increases for next year spreads across the country. Rhodes SRC president Zikisa Maqubela said: “Students are protesting (about the) minimum initial payment, which means students are required to pay 50 percent of the fees. This means if students live[…]
Wits University Vice Chancellor Adam Habib is expected to meet with student representatives on Friday following two days of protests at the institution. This as Wits said in a statement earlier that it would “postpone” all activities at all of their campuses on Friday – barring the Medical School campus.[…]
Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli forces suppressed protests across the West Bank in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound amid ongoing entry restrictions. Three Palestinians were injured at the Qalandiya military checkpoint after being shot by rubber-coated steel bullets as protesters marched from Qalandiya refugee camp[…]
In the charred concrete remains of the home in Duma where the Dawabsheh family used to live, a group of schoolgirls wrote messages on the wall. “I love you, my teacher,” wrote one girl. Another simply wrote the name “Reham” inside of a heart. Reham Dawabsheh, a 27-year-old teacher, died[…]
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