President Jacob Zuma's sudden cabinet reshuffle was aimed at embarrassing SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande, the party said yesterday. Nzimande, the erstwhile minister of higher education and training, was the only member of the cabinet to get the chop. "There was no reshuffle. The intention was to remove Comrade Blade. "It is an attack on the SACP," said Solly Mapaila, the party's first deputy general secretary, An SA […]
In a shock move on Tuesday morning‚ President Jacob Zuma reshuffled his cabinet‚ swapping around six of his ministers. Most notably‚ South African Communist Party secretary general Blade Nzimande has been axed as minister of higher education‚ and replaced with Prof Hlengiwe Mkhize‚ who was minister of home affairs. Nzimande's deputy‚ Mduduzi Manana‚ was replaced by Buti Manamela‚ former deputy minister for planning and monitoring in the Presidency. Manana resigned […]
SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Friday that Brian Molefe’s return to Eskom was perverse. “That’s perverse. We can’t allow perversion… Who will suffer in the end? It’s the ANC‚” Nzimande said at a conference hosted by the SACP. “We have nothing against Brian personally. We are against wrong things.” Molefe returned to Eskom after a brief stint as a member of parliament‚ where he had allegedly […]
Government has approved a trial period for the introduction of a mixed funding scheme for the "missing middle" student income group in 2017. A pilot project would be implemented at various universities and one Technical and Vocational Education and Training college in 2017 to test certain aspects of the model, the higher education department said in a recent statement. The pilot project would run parallel to a feasibility study of […]
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has labelled the politically connected Gupta family as "parasites", and has called for their influence to be defeated. “Parasites like the Guptas are not alternative to monopoly capital. Instead their parasitic acts can only serve to weaken the capacity of our state and struggle to defeat monopoly capital,” Nzimande said at a Red October rally in Sebokeng on Sunday. He said there should be no […]
While finance minister, Pravin Gordhan today took to Parliament where he presented the budget speech, outside the heavily guarded gates, hundreds of university students continued their call for free and decolonized education. The protest, led by Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) Student Representative Council (SRC), included students from all major Western Cape tertiary institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape, and Stellenbosch University. […]
About 40 students arrested in connection with public violence and vandalism at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) this week are expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Friday. They were arrested on Wednesday after they went on a rampage after management allegedly failed to pitch for a scheduled meeting to answer to a list of 40 demands from students. The demands related to the Fees Must […]
The University of Cape Town says police have arrested four students who were transporting sewage containers to the campus. UCT spokesperson, Elijah Moholola says the students were apprehended at an entrance to one of the campuses. They were later released Students have meanwhile vowed to continue with protests at UCT. Student leader, Sinawo Thambo says, “We will continue to shut down and we will do so with the pain and […]
The University of the Western Cape will hold a series of meetings on Monday to discuss the way forward relating to ongoing fees protests. Management and students are scheduled to hold dialogues to address various issues. Other universities in the province are planning to have academic activities on Monday. UWC says it has dedicated Monday for talks between student organisations, its executive and staff. Classes were suspended at the institution […]
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