The sector includes public universities, TVET and Community Education and Training (CET) colleges and private institutions among others.
Blade Nzimande hit out at former President Jacob Zuma, without making mention of his name, for allowing threats of instability to be made in his name.
Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande announced on 30 June 2021 that while universities would not officially be closing as initially announced by the president, they would be halting contact classes for the following 14 days. #BladeNzimande #COVID19 #HigherEducation
The minster on Wednesday announced measures adopted in the higher education sector under the adjusted level 4 lockdown regulations on student accommodation, academic classes and graduation ceremonies and events.
The minister is briefing the media after President Ramaphosa announced that South Africa would move to an adjusted level 4 lockdown on Sunday.
A total of 41% of all students surveyed between the ages of 18 and 35 years old were not able to buy food during hard lockdown last year.
This comes amid court action by the governing party’s suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule who wants the Johannesburg High Court to declare the ANC’s step-aside resolution unconstitutional, invalid and unlawful.
The department has spent R69.4 million on funding COVID-19 research and innovation and will be investing R25 million more.
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande visited the University of Cape Town (UCT), portions of which were damaged by a wildfire in April. #UCTfire
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande said that feasibility studies towards building two new universities were currently under way. Nzimande said the new institutions would be situated in the Ekurhuleni Metro and Hammanskraal. Nzimande was delivering his department’s budget during a mini plenary session in Parliament on 13 May 2021.
Chris Hani was killed by Walus in his driveway in Boksburg on 10 April 1993, in an attack that almost brought the country to the brink of a civil war.
The institution said management suspected the virus was contracted off-campus at one of the pubs or restaurants students frequented in the Hatfield area.
So far, over 200 students have been tested.
Higher Education Spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said about 55 students from the University of Pretoria have so far tested positive for COVID-19.
On Thursday, the South African Federation of Trade Unions called for Nzimande's resignation after he likened recent countrywide student protests to a soapie.
On Tuesday, Nzimande expressed concern over the disruptions at tertiary institutions where students are calling for historic debt to be scrapped and for government to deliver on the promise of free education.
'Every year, it’s like a soapie now, 'The Bold and the Beautiful', every beginning of the year there is instability,' Minister Nzimande said.
