Author: Phumla Mkize

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Education

Wits grinds to a halt as ‘poor’ students take fight to streets

Financial exclusion, accommodation allowance limits, non-payment of books and food allowances are at the centre of protests at the University of the Witwatersra... Read more.
Matome Chiloane responds to shooting
Education

MEC to visit Vaal school following fatal stabbing

  Violence in schools takes centre stage as Gauteng MEC Matome Chiloane visits a Sebokeng high school in the Vaal tomorrow after the death of a pupil follo... Read more.
Nzimande
Education

Nzimande kept in the dark on UCT vice-chancellor’s ‘early retirement’

The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Dr Blade Nzimande has been kept in the dark about issues involving the University of Cape Town (UCT) vi... Read more.
Budget Speech preview: Spotlight on SA's fragile economy Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers mid term budget speech in Cape Town
Education

‘Education not getting attention and funding it deserves’

The crisis that is the state of basic education in South Africa is not getting the attention and funding it deserves. This is according to education experts, ac... Read more.
News

No arrest weeks after team started probing Fort Hare deaths

No arrest has been made six weeks after the killing of University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor professor Sakhela Buhlungu’s bodyguard. Giving a report on the ... Read more.
Columnists

Shifting gears impossible if car is a jalopy

What an imagery, the commander-in-chief of South Africa painted to describe the manner in which the government plans to end the blackouts that are crippling the... Read more.