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“There has been a very sad incident just a few minutes ago, where I am,” National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) board chairperson, Ernest Khosa announced to members of a Parliamentary portfolio committee during a virtual briefing by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and NSFAS, on Wednesday morning. Khosa said he was located “a few metres from Wits University” when he joined the virtual meeting and could hear the disruptive “noise” of protesters outside his building. “I hope that what is happening outside, shows in so many ways the significance of the presentation that [NSFAS is] making today,” said Khosa.
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Heavy security at Wits after protesting students disrupt campus activities They were protesting over a number of issues, including the financial exclusion of some 6,000 students due to historical debt. Wits University students protesting on 9 March 2021, over registration issues according to the student representative council. Picture: @Wits_SRC/Twitter. 41 days ago JOHANNESBURG - There's heavy security at Wits University on Tuesday afternoon after protesting students disrupted activities at the institution. Students under the banner "Asinamali" ("We don't have money") blocked roads around the university with rubble earlier, disrupting traffic. They were protesting over a number of issues, including the financial exclusion of some 6,000 students due to historical debt.
EXPLAINED: AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and expiry dates How can government extend a vaccine expiry date? Why didn't government know sooner it wasn't working? Your AstraZeneca vaccine questions answered. A handout picture released by the University of Oxford on 23 November 2020 shows a technician working on the University's COVID-19 candidate vaccine, co-invented by the University of Oxford and Vaccitech in partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Picture: John Cairns/University of Oxford/AFP 63 days ago JOHANNESBURG - In a statement released by Wits University on Sunday afternoon, trial investigators said that the AstraZeneca vaccine had high efficacy against the original coronavirus for people who had mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms. But 501Y.V2 - the second variant of the virus first sequenced in South Africa and now the dominant variant in the country - did not see such positive results.