An open invitation has been extended to the Open Stellenbosch movement to engage in discussions on transformation at the Stellenbosch University, the institution’s management said on Tuesday. This followed a meeting between management and Parliament’s portfolio committee on higher education earlier in the day. “We are listening, we are talking,”[…]
At least one student was injured in a protest that turned violent at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute in Stellenbosch on Tuesday, as people who tried to enter lecture halls were sjambokked. ”This morning higher-certificate students locked a lecture hall for a test,” a student told News24. ”Management asked them[…]
While the issues motivating student organisation Open Stellenbosch are valid, newly-elected Stellenbosch University SRC chairperson Axolile Qina disagrees with the way in which the group highlights its grievances. Open Stellenbosch describes itself on its Facebook page as a “collective of students and staff working to purge the oppressive remnants of[…]
EFF and Sasco members threw stones at one another when Julius Malema addressed his party’s supporters at the Tshwane University of Technology on Wednesday. Police and security at the institution’s Pretoria West campus intervened and restored order. South African Students Congress (Sasco) members said Malema’s presence would not help the[…]
Kenyan police have charged five men in connection with the attack by the armed group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya in April in which 148 people were killed. The five men pleaded not guilty to 152 counts of committing acts of terrorism in a Nairobi court on Thursday.[…]
Kenyans have begun three days of national mourning and dedicated Easter Sunday prayer services to the 148 victims of the recent university massacre by al-Shabab fighters. Easter ceremonies across the country were due to be held in the memory of the students and security personnel killed in a country where[…]
South African political parties on Friday condemned the attack on the Garissa University in Kenya, where 147 people were killed by Al-Shabaab militants, calling it appalling and senseless. “The loss of life and attacks on defenseless citizens is indefensible and unjustifiable regardless of the circumstances,” ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa[…]
The attack at the Garissa university in Kenya, where 147 people were killed by Somali radicals was appalling and indefensible, the African National Congress said on Friday. “The loss of life and attacks on defenseless citizens is indefensible and unjustifiable regardless of the circumstances,” national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said. “We[…]
At least 147 people have been killed after Kenyan troops cleared a university dormitory in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya that had been seized by al-Shabab gunmen, the interior ministry says. Members of the Somalia-based group attacked the campus after dawn on Thursday and were holed up in[…]
Post-matric students should consider alternatives other than university, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Monday. “The future of our youth does not only lie in going to university, or in going to university the first time you finish matric,” he told reporters in Pretoria. “You can still access meaningful[…]
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