The DHET and universities have reached another fee compact to ensure fee increases for the 2021 academic year are kept at affordable levels...
Liquor traders from the tavern sector are appealing to the government to allow off-premise alcohol sales to resume on 16 January, to help protect the 250,000 jobs in the sector and safeguard livelihoods.
Following a year dominated by Covid-19 with its knock-on economic effects, back-to-school 2021 looks different from previous years. Salary cuts and retrenchments have affected many South Africans, and as a result, many parents are more cash-strapped than ever before. These are some of the changes we anticipate, with tips on how parents can navigate this expensive annual exercise...
Kerry Sutherland 25 Nov 2020
Healthcare is one of our economy's sectors most carefully scrutinised by local and international investors. This interest is unlikely to decrease in 2020, with the government's announcement of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill...
Madelein Barkhuizen 7 Jan 2020
Many South Africans and SA organisations are giving significantly more philanthropic funding to local universities. However, the vast majority of funding goes to more traditional, research-intensive, historically advantaged universities (HAIs)...
While popular domestic airlines continue to offer affordable domestic flights across South Africa, if you plan to travel internationally on a South African passport anytime this year you'll need to include your visa costs in your budget...
Issued by Domestic Flights South Africa 3 Apr 2019
Authorities in Mozambique should immediately reverse plans to impose prohibitively high financial charges that unduly target independent media...
MultiChoice has announced that DStv subscription fees will see another hike this year. Starting in April, expect to pay more. For nothing...
Jason Snyman 23 Feb 2018
The Gauteng Provincial Government has published the Draft Fifteenth Amendment of the Gauteng Road Traffic Regulations for public comment...
Fees need to be hiked regardless of whether education is free or not, to take account of the economic realities facing higher education institutions, Department of Higher Education director-general Gwebinkundla Qonde says...
Tamar Kahn 9 Nov 2017
The long-awaited university fees commission report is expected to be released by President Jacob Zuma this week, but a leaked version of it saying that free education is unfeasible has already sparked fear of more student protests...
Michelle Gumede and Karl Gernetzky 30 Oct 2017
President Jacob Zuma is keeping mum on when he will make public the findings of the Fees Commission report into the feasibility of free education...
Farren Collins and Petru Saal 26 Oct 2017
The ANC wants the government to provide free higher education for poor would-be students as early as next year...
Sabelo Ndlangisa 2 Aug 2017
While it is essential to diversify the make-up of staff and students at tertiary institutions, the government's current fixation with increasing the number of black professors further threatens institutional autonomy...
Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 21 Jul 2017
Differential pricing may seem unfair. But if locals had to start paying the same prices as tourists, it's likely that many of them would be prevented from enjoying heritage sites in their own communities...
Sally Everett 5 Jul 2017
Government has contributed over R4 billion towards covering university fee increases, says Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says a provision of R5bn has been set aside to fund the higher education and training sector in 2019/20...
Thousands of prospective university students' funding applications have been turned down by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) for the 2017 academic year...
Michelle Gumede 10 Feb 2017
The Department of Higher Education and Training has left it to universities to decide whether to register students with historical debt who are not funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)...
Khulekani Magubane 27 Jan 2017
Three technical and vocational education and training (TVET) campuses will open in 2017 to absorb some of the hundreds of thousands matrics who failed to get university exemption...
Bekezela Phakathi 15 Jan 2017
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande says tremendous progress has been made in making higher education more accessible to the poor through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme...
Many consumers are bewildered by the escalating costs of medical care, and feel powerless in the face of double-digit increases from the country's largest medical schemes...
It has been a tumultuous year, with increased geopolitical uncertainty and shock events such as Brexit and Trump voted in as US president-elect...
Azola Zuma 14 Dec 2016
Wits University has increased its fees by 8% because it had been left in the lurch by the government, which had short-changed it by R54-million...
Jan Bornman and Shenaaz Jamal 6 Dec 2016
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says a lot of ground work has been done to ensure a seamless registration period for the 2017 academic year...
Even the poorest university students will have to find a way to pay back the money lent to them for their fees or risk getting nailed by the taxman...
SA must not deceive itself with the idea of free higher education and should focus on finding a workable model, statistician-general Pali Lehohla says...
Blade Nzimande's department is due to table a report to Parliament that will reveal how the government will tackle the crises in higher education...
Can we justify free tertiary education, when there's a greater need for a robust social security system? Does SA need more poets and politicians, when artisans are what will grow the economy?...
Ryan Ravens 21 Oct 2016
The 39% increase in the severity of insurance claims is directly attributable to increases in service delivery and student unrest...
Sharon Snell 17 Oct 2016
The University of the Witwatersrand will announce its fee increase decision for 2017 in December, while other universities are mulling their announcement dates...
Genevieve Quintal 11 Oct 2016
Thesubstantial 2017 tariff increases announced by the biggest medical aid schemes is indicative of an industry model that is deeply flawed...
Wits University students have voted by a 77% majority to resume their studies on Monday, 3 October 2016, in an overwhelming show of confidence in vice-chancellor Adam Habib...
NMMU and Rhodes University could be facing a lawsuit from hundreds of angry parents whose children have been affected by fee-related protests...
As several universities around South Africa remain shut this week, Wits University is planning to poll its students and staff over whether the institution should remain closed...
Jan Bornman, Nivashni Nair, Taschica Pillay, Farre 27 Sep 2016
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande has condemned the destruction of university property, which has run into millions of rands...
The chairman of the fees commission has called for patience from students and urged them to accept fee hikes...
Penelope Mashego and Karl Gerntzky 22 Sep 2016
Students are adamant that free education is feasible as university protests enter their third day, despite the Treasury saying those who can afford to should pay fees...
Sipho Mabena, Nathi Olifant and Poppy Louw 21 Sep 2016
"A cop-out" and a "short-term reaction to a crisis" is how analysts have described the government's decision to shield poor and middle-income students from university fee increases.
"A cop-out" and a "short-term reaction to a crisis" is how analysts have described the government's decision to shield poor and middle-income students from university fee increases...
Universities will individually decide on the fee increases for 2017 academic year, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced on Monday, 19 September 2016...
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande faces tough questions regarding university fees in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) amid reports that President Jacob Zuma has declared a zero rate increase...
Khulekani Magubane and Penelope Mashego 23 Aug 2016
The ANC has called on the government to hold off on increasing student fees for the 2017 academic year until all parties have found an economically viable solution...
In a move that could reignite #FeesMustFall protests, university fees could rise as much as 6% in 2017 following a 2016 moratorium that has set institutions and the state back billions of rand...
South Africa's government is planning a major overhaul of its student funding system...
Temwa Moyo, Nimi Hoffman, Sioux McKennan 4 May 2016
Buoyed by their #FeesMustFall and #OutsourcingMustFall victories, students have pledged to intensify their battles on campuses across South Africa...
Suthentira Govender 5 Apr 2016
On 15 January 2016, the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) obtained an interim court order from the South Gauteng High Court...
Thousands of students will be barred from studying at university next year if the government fails to find an extra R2bn for those who qualify for funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme...
Prega Govender 21 Dec 2015
Twitter has unveiled the #YearOnTwitter of 2015. It is a place to look back at the most retweeted Tweets, the most popular trends, and how 2015 unfolded across the world on Twitter...
President Jacob Zuma says the proposed Higher Education Amendment Bill will make it possible for discussions around institutional autonomy to take place...