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Survey: Almost 30% of SA students went a day without eating during hard lockdown
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.
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SACP: ANC competent enough to deal with those opposed to step-aside resolution
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.
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Minister Nzimande’s dept spends most of its budget fighting COVID-19
The department has spent R69.4 million on funding COVID-19 research and innovation and will be investing R25 million more.
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Minister Nzimande announces plans for two new universities
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.
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‘Janusz Walus must rot in jail’ - SACP leader Blade Nzimande
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.
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Over 100 University of Pretoria students test positive for COVID
The institution said management suspected the virus was contracted off-campus at one of the pubs or restaurants students frequented in the Hatfield area.
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Nzimande: Over 3,000 students, staff being screened following COVID outbreaks
So far, over 200 students have been tested.
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Nzimande concerned about pockets of COVID-19 infections in higher institutions
Higher Education Spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said about 55 students from the University of Pretoria have so far tested positive for COVID-19.
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Student protests: Nzimande labels outrage over ‘soap opera’ comment as malicious
On Thursday, the South African Federation of Trade Unions called for Nzimande's resignation after he likened recent countrywide student protests to a soapie.
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Saftu calls on Nzimande to resign after likening students protests to 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.
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‘The Bold & the Beautiful’ - Nzimande likens student protests to soapie
'Every year, it’s like a soapie now, 'The Bold and the Beautiful', every beginning of the year there is instability,' Minister Nzimande said.
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Gcaleka hopeful student protests will end soon after meeting with Nzimande
However, with the national shutdown in place across the country, acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka said their priority, for now, was getting students back in class.
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Nzimande has until 5 pm today to respond to students or face shutdown
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has until 5 pm to reach the 15 demands made by protesting students or face the threat of a national shutdown of institutions from Monday next week.
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High Court rules Unisa's decision to reduce 1st-year intake be set aside
Unisa had decided to reduce its intake from 58,000 to 38,000 as per a directive from the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande.
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WATCH LIVE: Nzimande gives update on tertiary funding amid student protests
Wits University students have been demonstrating over tuition fees and the financial exclusion of some of their peers.
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‘You are incompetent’ - MPs accuse Nzimande of not helping students
He came in for a lashing in the National Assembly hours after a man was shot dead during a student protest in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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Nzimande: Unisa must explain why it accepted extra first year students
The portfolio committee on higher education has summoned the university to explain why it failed to stick to its enrollment plans.
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Minister Nzimande: No confirmed funding for new university students
Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Blade Nzimande addressed the media on 8 March 2021, in Pretoria, elaborating on why NSFAS may not be able to fund all new students applying to universities for the 2021 academic year. #HigherEducation #BladeNzimande #FeesMustFall
