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South Africa: NMMU Students Barricade All Entrances to Campus
News24Wire, 22 October 2015
Students barricaded all entrances to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) on Thursday afternoon after a tense stand-off between them and Vice Chancellor Derrick Swartz… Read more »
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South Africa: Students Told Management Not At Granger Bay
News24Wire, 22 October 2015
Students outside the Granger Bay Cape Peninsula University of Technology campus are demanding that management come out to address them. Read more »
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South Africa: Students Make Their Way Back to Cape Town CBD
News24Wire, 22 October 2015
Students are making their way back to the Cape Peninsula University of Technology campus in the city. Read more »
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South Africa: University Fees - Free Higher Education Is Possible in South Africa
Daily Maverick, 21 October 2015
The question that has been raised this week is whether it is possible to increase funding for universities. Most mainstream analysts, commentators in the media, and the higher… Read more »
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South Africa: Thousands of Students Make Their Way to Granger Bay Hotel
News24Wire, 22 October 2015
More than a thousands students have arrived at the Waterfront as they make their way to Granger Bay hotel. Read more »
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South Africa: How Higher Education Leaders Missed a Golden Opportunity
The Conversation Africa, 21 October 2015
There were several elephants in the room at the South African Higher Education Summit which ran just as university students were beginning a nationwide series of protests against… Read more »
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South Africa: Only Pressure On Elites Can Ease University Fee Stress
The Conversation Africa, 21 October 2015
There is a new student movement sweeping South Africa's universities. Its enemies? Excessive fee increases and underpaid workers. Read more »
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Africa: Free Education Is a Worthy Goal, but South Africa Isn't Ready for It Yet
The Conversation Africa, 22 October 2015
Free education in South Africa is a goal worth pursuing, especially for students who are poor and want access to tertiary institutions and those who correctly see it as a right and… Read more »
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South Africa: 'My Child Cannot Live Uneducated'
News24Wire, 21 October 2015
Protesting University of the Witwatersrand students sat on the floor of the institution's Senate House on Wednesday morning to listen to a political lecture. Read more »
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South Africa: Protesters Halt Exams At University of Limpopo
News24Wire, 21 October 2015
Protesters at the University of Limpopo forced students writing exams on Wednesday to abandon their papers as resistance to increases in tuition fees continued to spread around the… Read more »
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South Africa: What You Are Doing Is Not Right - Tuks Protesters Tell Library Students
News24Wire, 21 October 2015
Protesting University of Pretoria students gathered outside the institution's library on Wednesday to call out other students who were studying inside. Read more »
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South Africa: How UCT Management Fanned the Flames of Protest
The Daily Vox, 21 October 2015
What began as a protest against fee increases and outsourcing has now taken a new turn. While students involved in the UCT shutdown continue to fight for affordable education and… Read more »
Student Fee Protests Sweep Across South Africa
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande's announcement that fee hikes would be capped at 6% for 2016 has been rejected by students.
Rhodes students barricade a road and burn tyres in protest of tuition fee increases.
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Lectures and other activities have been suspended following the protest action. Read more »
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The Council of the University of Witwatersrand has issued proposals on how it plans to address the fee increase challenge. Read more »
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The protesting students have said they plan to barricade the institution until their demands are met. Read more »
