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Three Durban University of Technology (DUT) campuses will be closed on Friday due to a planned protest.

Protest: Students block MUT entrance with burning tyres and debris Students are calling for increased government funding for tertiary education. Mangosuthu University of Technology student protests Blocked entrance at MUT The Student Command account shared photos on Twitter, explaining protest action continues at MUT as “Fighters intensify the call for DHET to respond on the Sizofunda Ngenkani 2021 demands”. Protests intensified this week after the initial student campaign kicked off mid-March to demand affordable education. On Tuesday, students used burning tyres and debris to block the ...

Teargas, bleeding knees and burning tyres: A day in the protest for free higher education 16 Mar 2021 Students continue to protest over university fees on March 15, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Students took to the streets of Johannesburg early on Monday to continue their protests about fees as 26 universities across SA braced for a national shutdown. Students, countrywide, demonstrated demanding that those who are in debt be allowed to register and that historical debt be wiped out. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Tailing the students are a police nyala and ...

26 days ago JOHANNESBURG - The High Court in Pretoria has on Thursday ordered the University of South Africa (Unisa) to review and set aside its decision to reduce its 2021 intake of first-year students. Unisa had decided to reduce its intake from 58,000 to 38,000 as per a directive from the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Student Command had taken Nzimande and the University to court to challenge the decision, to which the South African Human Rights Commission was admitted as an amicus. The EFF and the commission found Unisa's po...

Nzimande’s last-minute scramble to find funding for students has not stopped them from mobilising for a nationwide shutdown.