21 October 2015, students shut down all major universities across South Africa. Image credit: Oupa Mokoena Black First Land First Student Movement (BLF-SM) condemns Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, for not meeting the demands of the South African Union of Students (SAUS), after being put on terms to do so within …
By BO Staff Writer President has finally released the long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training. Some of the recommendations includes the increase of government expenditure on higher education and training to at least 1% of the GDP, the existing NSFAS model be replaced by a new Income Contingency …
By BO Staff Writer Students in various institutions of higher learning around the country, including the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), University of the Free State (UFS) and the University of Cape Town (UCT), have been actively involved in the struggle for free decolonised education, the demilitarization of campuses and the dropping of charges …
By Nonkululeko Mickey Moyo & Lindsay Maasdorp At first glance, one would question why the Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, would take time to speak on student politics, to troll students online or spend any amount of time deciphering the meaning of a Student Representative Council (SRC) election and how it comes to …
By Lindsay Maasdorp The Higher Education National Convention had barely started when mass disruptions that saw the Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) beat up the members of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) after they had disrupted Minister Blade Nzimande from speaking. This was the second and final disruption, and one which followed a student …
By Thobani Zikalala I send revolutionary greetings to all. I, like many of you, am a child of the dispossessed masses of Black people in Occupied Azania – the so called “rainbow nation” South Africa! As such, I feel obliged to write this letter to you today, which will be made permanent not with the …
By Lindsay Maasdorp The 2016 matric results have been released and the white-centered view is that the black majority have failed dismally in achieving white standards. Biko says: “Township life alone makes it a miracle for anyone to live up to adulthood.” How is it then possible that white-centered learning that privileges an assessment based …
Media Statement The fight for free decolonised education has seen Comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile spend over 80 days in prison, and today’s ruling that denied him bail, will see him continue to languish in an anti-black institution at a time when he should be with loved ones. We reject the position taken by the judiciary that …
BO Staff Writer Durban University of Technology student and Fees Must Fall activist, Bonginkosi Khanyile, will appear before the Pietermaritzburg High Court tomorrow morning. Khanyile has been in custody since September when a number of students were arrested for partaking in the nationwide student protests calling for the government to scrap university fees and offer …
MEDIA STATEMENT Black First Land First (BLF) shall today join the #FeesMustFall march to parliament to demand that Pravin Gordhan stops his neoliberal policies which denies black students access to education. The State President has long ago asked Pravin Gordhan to find the money for free education. However instead of taxing white capital and making …
