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Parliament’s Select Committee on Education and Recreation has welcomed the announcement by the Presidency of government’s response to the Heher Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education.In a statement Saturday, Committee chairperson

Eastern Cape Universities have cautiously welcomed the announcement by President Jacob Zuma that free higher education would be extended to the poor and working class.Rhodes University said Saturday that it noted and welcomed the important

The Democratic Alliance said that the announcement by President Jacob Zuma that government would introduce fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working-class undergraduate students while welcomed, is completely un-costed

Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, on Saturday urged the government to be as vigilant with private sector corruption as it was with public sector corporate governance, saying that it was government’s duty to do so.Citing recent scandal at South

The government will extend fully subsidised free higher education to “poor and working class” youth from 2018, the presidency said on Saturday.The government would increase subsidies to universities from 0.68 percent to one percent of

The Durban High Court sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Friday, for killing a police officer in the Folweni area in Durban, South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as the Hawks) said.Spokesperson Captain

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) is not acting in the interests of the working class majority and the public in general, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Saturday.Numsa condemned Nersa for

INXEBA (The Wound) the debut feature from director John Trengrove, has been chosen among the nine films shortlisted for the 90th Academy Awards Foreign Language Film Category.The critically acclaimed drama Inxeba is an exploration of tradition and

Leaders from South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), have been called to a national executive committee (NEC) discussion ahead of its 54th national conference on Saturday, to deliberate court judgments made on Friday