Students Are Walking From Cape Town To Pretoria For Access To Education
A group of 13 people, including a pastor, a lawyer, and members of the University of Pretoria (UP) student representative council and other students are walking from Parliament to the Union Buildings...
View ArticleFMF 3.0: How Free Education Promises Fuelled The 2019 Protests
NEWS ANALYSIS It’s only March 2019 but there have already been no fewer than 10 students protests at campuses around South Africa just this year. Violence is once more normalised on campuses with a...
View ArticleStudents Are Walking From Cape Town To Pretoria For Access To Education
A group of 13 people, including a pastor, a lawyer, and members of the University of Pretoria (UP) student representative council and other students, are walking from Parliament to the Union Buildings...
View Article#FeesMustFall Enters Parliament
The top three political parties competing in the 2019 national elections have all released parliamentary lists, and all three have made important nods to youth leadership. However, that is no automatic...
View ArticleWill Student Leaders Make An Impact In Parliament?
Former student leaders of the Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement are well on their way to Parliament. Wits University FMF leaders Nompendulo Mkwatsha and Fasiha Hassan have been named on the ruling African...
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How Fees Must Fall Activists Plan On Voting
Fees Must Fall activists and leaders from KwaZulu-Natal told the Daily Vox how they plan on voting; and why it’s important to participate in general elections despite difficulties faced by students in...
View ArticleBlade Nzimande At Higher Education: It’s Back To “Square One” For Students
NEWS ANALYSIS During the period when Fees Must Fall gripped the South African campuses, then-higher education minister Blade Nzimande and the students were at war. Nzimande was swapped in for Hlengiwe...
View ArticleBlade Nzimande: What His Return Means For Higher Education
The last time he was the higher education (DHET) minister he said “students must fall” and dismissed the student movement. Now Dr. Blade Nzimande is back as the minister of the newly combined higher...
View ArticleThe Real Price Of A Degree: The Untold Story Of Financially Excluded Students
AS TOLD TO Author and masters candidate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Thuthukani Nkosi will be publishing his book The Real Price of a Degree, a thriller which unpacks the injustices faced by...
View ArticleJustice Department Says “No” On Pardons For Fees Must Fall Activists
Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola addressed the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in parliament. He said he had been informed about the call by students for the blanket...
View ArticleMagistrate Denies Kanya Cekeshe Bail, Leave To Appeal Conviction
“Why is the state hell-bent on keeping Cekeshe in jail,” asked Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi. It was a packed court at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court for Kanya Cekeshe’s bail hearing. Cekeshe, a...
View ArticleOnline Discussion: How Students Are Struggling With Online Learning
Join The Daily Vox and Youth Capital on August 5 2020 for an online discussion on how students are dealing with online learning. Youth Capital, an organisation that strives to transform the employment...
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“The Fall” is a fantasy novel set in the middle of #FeesMustFall protests
Jen Thorpe’s novel The Fall marries fantasy with reality in a fast-paced mashup. We chatted to Thorpe about her inspiration for the book. Basis of the book Set during the Fees Must Fall (FMF)...
View ArticleTL;DR: A roundup of SRC elections from across the country
Even with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, politics must go on. Around the country, universities adapted the elections for the 2020/2021 student representative council (SRC). While some...
View ArticleHeard at Zondo: Fees Must Fall was “infiltrated” by the State Security Agency
During the January 25 sitting of the State Capture Commission, Sydney Mufamadi, the chairperson of the high-level panel into the State Security Agency (SSA) told the commission that the Fees Must Fall...
View ArticlePetition: In Solidarity with Students #Asinamali #EndAusterity #FreeEducation
In solidarity with students across the country, we, the undersigned, condemn the brutal murder of a 36-year old bystander who was shot and killed by police during a student protest against financial...
View ArticleThings that need to be fixed at NSFAs
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAs) is the aid scheme which provides financial aid to undergraduate students for their tertiary education. It is funded by the department of higher...
View ArticleIt’s been 7 years since “Rhodes fell”– here’s how it happened
April 9, 2022 marked seven years since the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from its plinth at the University of Cape Town. The removal of the Rhodes Statue was part of the #RhodesMustFall...
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Reflections of the #FeesMustFall movement from TUT grounds
South Africa has been host to many protest and students uprisings – both in the apartheid era and the infamous post-apartheid rainbow nation era. Protests fueled by injustice, racism and inequality...
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A new wave of activism is rising – a political awakening from FMF
A moment of hope was born some seven years ago as students across South Africa joined together in their call for a free decolonised higher education. While this call was previously made by students...
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