Hundreds of high school learners from a Cape Town School protested outside the Western Cape Department of Education on Thursday to demand more textbooks. Grade 8 to 12 learners from Maitland High School, clad in full school attire and school bags, were bearing paper signs that read, “No textbooks, no[…]
Fourteen students at the University of Cape Town have thus far been suspended for occupying Avenue house, an administrative building that forms part of the student housing system at UCT. These students form part of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement (RMFM). This movement was founded in the early stages of[…]
Tensions were high at a Wits university debate on Thursday night, where vice chancellor Adam Habib apparently lost his cool on questions over the removal of controversial SRC president Mcebo Dlamini. The student’s “I love Hitler” comment has sparked nationwide debate on freedom of speech and also raised questions about[…]
Volunteers from the South African National Zakaf Fund (SANZAF) brightened the smiles of 1300 pupils at the Heinz Primary School in Mitchells Plain on Tuesday as part of their Winter Warmth Drive. SANZAF handed over winter packs consisting of winter caps, scarves and gloves as well as a warm meal[…]
It was a sigh of relief for the 22 aspiring students who received bursaries in the 2015 VOC Bursary Project handed over at Burnley Lodge on Wednesday night. The students, most of them first years, are studying in a range of fields – from Biotechnology and law, to dentistry and[…]
Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) say there is a lack of understanding and consciousness regarding so called “white privilege” at the institution. The “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign has entered its second week of protest action from students who say the statue is a symbol of the violent[…]
Hundreds of Myanmar police and hired thugs charged at students protesting a new education law on Tuesday, pummeling them with batons and then dragging them into trucks, ending a weeklong standoff. Witnesses said many of the demonstrators suffered injuries, some to the head. Police also chased after journalists, scattering them.[…]
At least 5,000 people have joined the funeral services for three young Muslim students gunned down in the US state of North Carolina, in what family members said could be a “hate crime”. The crowd for Thursday’s funeral in the state capital Raleigh was so large it had to be[…]
Oasis Crescent Fund Trust will be investing over R7 million to the Oasis Bursary Programme to extend its reach to over 45 worthy students from various communities across South Africa. At a special handover ceremony to its 2015 recipients on Saturday, 19 new students were given a financial boost for[…]
Mexican officials have filed an arrest warrant for the former mayor of a southern city for the kidnapping of 43 teachers’ college students. Tomas Zeron, head of criminal investigations for the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, announced the arrest order Tuesday night. Forty-four other people are named in the warrant. It is[…]
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