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,[…]
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe came down to meet with protesting students outside the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Thursday. Earlier, former Wits University SRC president Mcebo Dlamini told the crowd: “The secretary general of the ANC will humble himself and come down here.” “When I was growing[…]
Thousands of students today gathered at the University of Cape Town for a fourth day of protests, which have sprung up all around the country against proposed student fee increases that are scheduled to take place next year. Students as well as a few academics took to the streets of[…]
More than a thousands students have arrived at the Waterfront as they make their way to Granger Bay hotel. CPUT management is apparently holding a meeting at the hotel. News24 reporter Thulani Gqirana said police were on their way to the scene. Meanwhile, News24 reporter Vernon Pillay said students were[…]
A charge sheet produced by one of six people arrested outside Parliament during a university fees protest showed the six were to face a charge of high treason before it was dropped upon their appearance in court. Kevin French, 63, who was arrested along with Markus Trengove, Nathan Taylor, Chumani[…]
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[…]
Protesting University of Cape Town and Cape Peninsula University of Technology students forced themselves into the Parliamentary precinct on Wednesday, while the National Assembly was in session for Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s mid-term budget speech. Students were shouting for Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande to address them and gathered at[…]
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[…]
The ANC says the current student protests at several of the country’s universities over fee hikes are “legitimate”. In a statement, national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said: “These legitimate protests underscore the very important call that affordability cannot be the barometer that is used to determine whether the youth of our[…]
Protesting Witwatersrand University students on Monday vowed to shut down the institution until their grievances were heard. This follows the university council refusing to address the thousands of students gathered at Senate House on Monday following an agreement on Saturday. Council said students had gone against the “spirit” of the[…]
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