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Tuesdays call comes after a bystander Mthokozisi Ntumba was killed when officers fired rubber bullets during protests by Wits students last week.

Sasco promises total shutdown of colleges, varsities Penwell Dlamini and Mpho Koka"> By Penwell Dlamini and Mpho Koka - 15 March 2021 - 08:27 Universities are bracing for a huge shutdown of campuses today across the country as students embark on renewed protests over financial exclusions. Yesterday, the SA Students Congress (Sasco) warned it would block all the gates to campuses at various universities and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges nationwide to...

TUT won’t join tertiary shutdown ‘but supports the cause’ Updated Anastasi Mokgobu Share this: The student representative council (SRC) at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) says it supports the call by students and SAUS to shut down all 26 public universities. Maryke Vermaak SRC President Mike Mothiba says it won’t join as students have yet to complete the 2020 academic year. “It will be unfair for the SRC to call for the university to shutdown whilst students want to exit ...

Students burn copies of Roopanwal committee report on Rohith Vemula’s death Students burn copies of Roopanwal committee report on Rohith Vemula’s death A Group Of Students From The University Of Hyderabad (UoH) On Thursday Burnt Copies Of A Probe Panel’s Report Which Had Said That The Varsity’s Action Was Not Responsible For Dalit Scholar Rohit Vemula’s Suicide. PTI | Updated on: 25 Aug 2017, 02:06:30 PM Hyderabad: A group of students f...

Its a sad situation: Cele says after Mthokozisi Ntumbas killing Police top brass arrived at Mthokosizi Nthumbas Kempton Park home to meet with his grieving family on Thursday. Mthokozisi Ntumba was shot and killed during student protests on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. Picture: Facebook. 37 days ago JOHANNESBURG - Police Minister Bheki Cele said he could neither explain nor defend the actions of the police offi...

He came in for a lashing in the National Assembly hours after a man was shot dead during a student protest in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Cabinet approves R7bn extra for NSFAS amid heightened student protests Government will spend R42.1bn on the scheme this year - up from the budget of nearly R35bn in 2020, which was already more than the R32bn the year before 11 March 2021 - 14:53 On Thursday, acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced that the government had decided to allocate additional funding to NSFAS. File photo Image: Freddy Mavunda The National Student Financial Aid Sche...

Cele, Mawela visit home of man shot dead by police during Wits protest Police Minister Beki Cele, Gauteng Commissioner Elias Mawela and officials from police watchdog Ipid are expected to meet with Mthokosizi Mthumbas family. FILE: Police Minister Bheki Cele. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News. 29 days ago KEMPTON PARK - Police top brass on Thursday arrived at the Kempton Park home of the 35-year-old ma...

Police watchdog IPID says it's investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a civilian during a student protest near Wits University.

A student in Kamloops, British Columbia, was pulled from school and sent home because her teacher decided her clothes were inappropriate and might be distracting. But it wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the outfit itself—17-year-old Karis wore a white turtleneck underneath a black knee-length dress. Generally speaking, there wasn’t any excessive show of skin or anything like that, but the teen still had to go home in tears. Her father took it to the internet to protest this decis...