Tertiary Education
University asks NSFAS to scrap cap on accommodation allowance
Pretoria students say they will struggle to find lodgings
Brief | 8 February 2023
UCT Employees Union threatens strike as negotiations deadlock
The trade union is the largest at the university, representing 1,200 staff
By Liezl Human
News | 26 January 2023
Student organisation SHAWCO bounces back to celebrate 80th birthday
The welfare organisation aims to be operating at 100% capacity by the end of 2023
News | 7 December 2022
Dreams deferred for matriculants who can’t get IDs
Without an identity document, hopes of further study are dashed
News | 8 November 2022
How UCT council chair ignored calls for meeting for months
New allegations surface in leaked university council correspondence
By Liezl Human
News | 17 October 2022
The student activist who gaslit workers and cost them their jobs
31 sacked security guards have asked UCT for forgiveness after being misled by Sibusiso Mpendulo
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and James Stent
News | 10 October 2022
Protesters halt lectures at University of Free State’s Qwaqwa campus
The students are demanding that accommodation allowances from NSFAS be paid to them instead of directly to landlords
News | 29 September 2022
Wits to name landmark after a mining company. Students are demanding that it rather be named after Marikana
Protesters say Sibanye-Stillwater is responsible for the “exploitation and destruction of communities and the murder of mine workers”
Brief | 23 September 2022
Thousands of students sign petition to increase NSFAS allowance
They want the current allowance of R1,500 to be increased to R2,000
By Benita Enoch
Brief | 2 September 2022