South Africa is a victim of its own success with many having forgotten the ANC’s progress towards providing free education, said party secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday. He said there were around 150 000 black students at universities across the country in 1994. Today there were just over 800[…]
Student leaders throughout the country have drawn a line in the sand and dared government and universities to cross it. As discussions over fee increments for 2017 continue, student leaders say they are not prepared to toy with the idea of any increase, whatever the amount. “We have already made[…]
Students taking part in Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) have claimed that they have been physically manhandled and verbally abused by campus security in a bid to prevent them from hosting the annual IAW exhibition on their university campus. Students were demanded to immediatley dis-assemble[…]
University vice chancellors are meeting Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande on Wednesday to discuss the year ahead, the department said. Spokesperson Khaye Kwanyana said Nzimande intended explaining government’s plans for the year. The meeting was in Kempton Park and closed to the public. “Nzimande wants to make clear[…]
At least 19 people have been killed in an attack that lasted six hours at a university in northwest Pakistan, according to an army spokesperson. Attackers scaled a wall and cut through barbed wire on Wednesday morning at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, about 140km from the capital Islamabad.[…]
Student movement Open Stellenbosch has described the university council’s decision on the proposed language policy as a blatant rejection towards any transformation at the institution. Khule Duma, a member of Open Stellenbosch, said the reason why students had called for a change in the institution’s language policy was because black[…]
VOC has spent well over R1 million towards community outreach programmes in the 20 years of its existence, and that trend is set to continue with the opening of the 2015/2016 Bursary Fund. The annual drive, now in its 10th consecutive year, is one of the station’s biggest social investment[…]
Final examinations would continue at Stellenbosch University on Wednesday despite disruptions by protesting workers and students, the institution’s Rector Management Team (RMT) said on Tuesday. The RMT said the university had taken extra precautions to strength security and control access to exam venues. “Following today’s [Tuesday’s] incidents further measures and[…]
President Jacob Zuma said free university education is possible, four days after he acceded to demands of students to freeze fee levels for next year following nationwide protests. “It’s possible, but it’s not a question you can do overnight,” Zuma said on Tuesday in an interview at his residence in[…]
Several fires started “deliberately and simultaneously” on the University of the Witwatersrand’s Braamfontein campus were extinguished early on Wednesday morning, Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib said. Campus control managed to extinguish the fires with the help of others, with no one injured, Habib said in a statement. “We strongly condemn these cowardly[…]
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