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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. Picture: GCIS 30 days ago JOHANNESBURG - Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said that they wer...

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's room where he had gone in for a check-up. He's moving swiftly along the busy street when the firs...

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 shutdown. Head of SRC Mpendulo Mfeka is expected to meet with the VC, Zeblon Vilakazi this afternoo...