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By Thuli Madonsela, Justice Malala, Palesa Morudu, and Barney Pityana| PROFESSOR Adam Habib, the new director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)...

GERALD WANGENGE-OUMA| ONGOING student protests in South Africa have once again highlighted various problems with higher education funding. They boil down to challenges of...

NYAKALLO TEFU| WESTERN Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer has accused the national government of cutting provincial budgets and channelling more money to South Africa’s failing...

NYAKALLO TEFU| THE South African Union of Students (SAUS) has called off the national university shutdown. This follows a meeting with Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande.  During...

A SOUTH African school principal has been suspended after he made an 11-year-old pupil search for his missing phone at the bottom of a...

THE University of Pretoria (UP) has bid farewell to Chairperson of the UP Council Ntombifuthi “Futhi” Mtoba, who is stepping down after serving four...

WIM DE VILLIERS| LANGUAGE – more particularly Afrikaans – at Stellenbosch University (SU) has again been hotly discussed in the media over the past...

WOMEN hold up half the sky. Some years ago, Sarah al-Amiri, a young Emirati engineer, had a fixed gaze beyond the sky and towards...

TENNIS South Africa (TSA) hosted a successful clinic in Atteridgeville, Tshwane this past week, in the build-up to the highly anticipated second edition of...

This depends on the type of university – federal, state or private – as well as the type of private university – secular, faith-based...