In March, the higher education department de-registered Educor for failing to prove their financial viability. The new minister of higher education in August backtracked the decision, but Damelin East London is closing anyway.
Student organisations have welcomed the move by Nzimande but warn that it does not immediately solve the problems at Nsfas.
The problems at NSFAS are having a ripple effect on student registration this year.
With the December holidays just around the corner, Nsfas has opened for 2024 bursary applications but students say it is too late.
Some students were still digging in their heels and refusing to vacate the university residences by 16h00 on Friday, arguing that an eviction order would be required to make them go.
It is still not clear when train services on Metrorail’s Central Line will resume after it was suspended last month.
Government officials used a transport imbizo held in Khayelitsha at the weekend to shift responsibility for catching the culprits of train arson to communities.
In what was a show of force to the rival federation SAFTU and to opposition parties ahead of the 2019 general elections, COSATU and tripartite alliance leaders used the platform of Workers’ Day to defend the proposed labour law amendments and national minimum wage.
On Wednesday, the labour federation Cosatu took to the streets against state capture and corruption in both the public and private sector. The marches were […]
After much criticism on their silence and failure to participate in previous public demonstrations against state capture and corruption, the Congress of the South African Trade Unions and its affiliates finally came out to make their voices heard.
As university students across the country intensify their demand for free education under the banner of #FeesMustFall, their cause has not been peaceful with incidents of violence being widely reported. Those who are sympathetic are getting worried that the violence associated with the students’ protests is sabotaging their legitimate claim which is in line with the Freedom Charter that there shall be free and compulsory education.
This year’s May Day was marked by deep and visible division in the country’s biggest trade union federation. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, […]
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