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Higher Education Dept working on strategy to address historical debt - Manamela Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said that while government was supporting poor students through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), they are aware that many others who fell under the so-called missing middle needed assistance. FILE: Deputy Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela. Pictur...

Police minister Bheki Cele says he never discussed funeral arrangements with the family of Mthokozisi Ntumba during his visit to the family last week.

Four officers from the Public Order Policing Unit have been arrested following the death of a man at a student protest in Johannesburg.

Updated Nokukhanya N Mntambo Share this: The four police officers from the Public Order Policing Unit who were arrested for the fatal shooting of Mthokozisi Ntumba will appear in court on Wednesday. Facebook/MthokozisiNtumba Ntumba was struck by a stray bullet meant to disperse the students last week Wednesday. A group of students took to the streets demanding scrapping of historical debt for financially excluded students. In CCTV footage now made public, Ntumba can be seen leaving the doctor...

Protesting students close shops in Braamfontein Updated Sinethemba Madolo Sinethemba Madolo Students took to the streets for a second week to demand that historic debt be wiped out. The group, which began protesting at De Beer Street, which has been dubbed Ntumba Street by the students after Mthokosizi Ntumba, who was shot and killed during last week’s protests. #WitsProtests | A handful of students are gathered at De Beer Steet - dubbed by the students Ntumba Street - ahead of the national...

Protesting students intimidate journalists covering demonstrations in Joburg Earlier, some students turned on members of the media as large groups of University of Johannesburg students marched to join their Wits counterparts. Protesting students march back to Braamfontein along Solomon & Smit streets on 15 March 2021. Picture: @JoburgMPD/Twitter 25 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The situation continues to be volat...

Wits SRC member Kanakana Mudzanani said that they hoped that the justice system would not fail Ntumbas family.

Wits students again took the streets of Braamfontein on Thursday, continuing their protest against financial exclusion and historic debt, and their protest for free education and decolonisation of universities.

Friday 12 March 2021 - 8:00am eNCA reporters Slindelo Masikane at Wits and Ronald Masinda at the University of Cape Town gave an update ahead of planned protests. Courtesy of #DStv403 JOHANNESBURG - Student protests continue to spread across the country. In Cape Town, students are expected to shut down the University of Cape Town on Friday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended his condolences to the family of a 35-year-old man who died during a student protest in Johannesburg.