Eff Student Command News Today

The uMkhonto weSizwe party is fast developing its footprint in Nelson Mandela Bay politics with the establishment of the MK Student Movement, which has garnered support from hundreds of students.

The Makhanda high court has granted Buffalo City TVET College (BCC) an interim interdict against protesting students who allegedly caused disruptions at the college campuses.

Thousands of Walter Sisulu University students and staff will have to move to different campuses across the province in the new year as the university concludes phase 1 of its rationalisation and consolidation plan.

The ANC-aligned South African Students Congress (Sasco) came out kicking and screaming after losing the student representative council (SRC) elections to EFF Student Command (EFFSC) at the University of Fort Hare last week.The EFFSC emerged victorious at both the university’s East London and Alice campuses after a hard-fought campaign, which ended with the winners carrying a coffin and conducting a mock funeral service to commemorate the “death” of Sasco.

On Monday, the youth wing of AfriForum plastered stickers saying No whites allowed and Blacks only near the Hatfield campus entrance gates.

AfriForum Youth took responsibility for pasting the “blacks only” and “no whites allowed” stickers outside the UP Hatfield campus, saying this was “to place the spotlight on racial exclusion and the university’s double standards”.

The EFF Student Command in KwaZulu-Natal dismissed a poster calling for the total shutdown of all University of KwaZulu-Natal campuses on Friday as "fake".

Students aligned with the EFFSC have vowed that the Durban University of Technology will not operate normally while their concerns around the new financial aid payment method are not addressed.

University of KwaZulu-Natal student leaders have threatened to shut down the institution until all students are allocated residences as many spend nights in halls, corridors and classrooms.

With the registration closing date for matric exams rewrite extended, former EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee has urged party members to use the opportunity to get their matric certificates.