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The students have told Eyewitness News that they've been sent from pillar to post and have been waiting for months now to receive their qualifications.
Tens of thousands of Unisa students are still waiting to receive their R290 monthly living allowance which should have been paid at the start of the academic year in February.
âAfriforumâs fight for Afrikaans aims to restore apartheid privileges at Unisaâ Share Johannesburg - Afriforumâs fight for reinstatement of Afrikaans as a language of learning and teaching at Unisa is intended to restore apartheid privileges. Matthew Chaskalson SC has made this submission on behalf of Unisa at the Constitutional Court, which was hearing the universityâs bid to appeal a ruling that declared its new language policy unconstitutional and unlawful. Unisa lost to Afriforum at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last year, prompting its appeal application at the apex court. The university adopted a language policy in 2016 that removed Afrikaans as a dual medium of teaching and learning along English.
‘I drink water, that’s the only thing I do’: students starve while NSFAS fiddles Unisa students share heartbreaking stories as they beg for their monthly R290 allowance to buy food and data 13 May 2021 - 20:24 A Unisa student walked about 35 minutes to a shopping mall in Komani in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday to charge her cellphone so she could complete an assignment. Another was forced to use money she had set aside for electricity to pay the printing costs for an assignment... This article is free to read if you register or sign in. If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
18 April 2021 - 10:27 Unisa vice-chancellor Prof Puleng LenkaBula has been hauled to court over a decision to suspend Unisa’s executive director of legal services, Adv Modidima Mannya. Image: Thapelo Morebudi Unisa’s executive director of legal services, Adv Modidima Mannya, has hauled vice-chancellor Prof Puleng LenkaBula to court after she suspended him for, among other things, allegedly abusing his position. Mannya was placed on suspension on April 8 for three months after he rejected a proposal by LenkaBula to participate in what she termed, according to him, “a mediation”. He has asked the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to suspend the vice-chancellor’s decision to suspend him pending the finalisation of the arbitration of the dispute.
EFF fury at Unisa’s failure to obey court order and enroll 20,000 more students Varsity was ordered by higher education to cut its first-time student enrollment. Then the EFF intervened with court action 15 April 2021 - 19:24 The EFF’s national student command (EFFSC) has expressed disappointment over Unisa’s delay in enrolling about 20,000 first-time entering (FTEN) students despite being ordered to do so by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria last month. The EFFSC’s comments come amid a move by the portfolio committee of higher education to summon Unisa’s senior management as well as its council to parliament on May 6 to explain why it over-enrolled first-time entering students by 20,000...
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 position to be an impediment to the realisation of the right to further education. The High Court on Thursday agreed with the applicants and the commission.
Weighing in on the matter, Madonsela urged the SA Police Service and higher education minister Blade Nzimande to handle the protest with care. “I warned that the issue of financial and other university exclusions would get emotional. We are all fragile because of Covid-19,” said Madonsela. I warned that the issue of financial and other university exclusions would get emotional.We are all fragile because of #COVID19. @SAPoliceService,Minister @DrBladeNzimande, @WitsUniversity student leaders, please handle the #witsprotest with care,for all our sakes #SocialJustice— Prof Thuli Madonsela (@ThuliMadonsela3) March 10, 2021 Madonsela slammed the government for not implementing a limiting order to tertiary institutions, as it did with landlords regarding evicting tenants during the height of the pandemic.
Thuli Madonsela urges Ramaphosa and Nzimande to reverse order for Unisa to deregister 20,000 students 03 March 2021 - 07:14 Former public protector Thuli Madonsela said the move to deregister students could lead to disruptions by 'angry students'. File photo. Image: ESA ALEXANDER Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has pleaded with President Cyril Ramaphosa and higher education minister Blade Nzimande to withdraw the order that the University of SA (Unisa) should reduce its number of first-time students this year by 20,000. Madonsela’s plea comes after Nzimande, last month ordered Unisa to reduce its intake of first-time students, saying it had over-enrolled by about 20,000 last year.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are taking legal action against Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande and the University of South Africa (Unisa).