CruelBreeze
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Speaking of #BreadPricesMustFall, I remember there was also #DSTVPricesMustFall. What happened to that?
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Wits students protest over tuition fee increase
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ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
What do you think happened? Other than the fact that we all pissed ourselves laughing and Multichoice hiked the price ANYWAY.....
Sinbad
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Times change...
Neoprod
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#DSTVPricesMustFall is happening for me...got LTE working and watched the rugby over streaming on the weekend. Time to kick Multichoice to the curb.
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LazyLion
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Blocking Empire Road again....
Students are occupying Empire street. #WitsFeesWILLFall #FeesMustFall
From the roads act - so I ask WHERE ARE THE POLICE TO ARREST THESE VAGRANTS? They are NOT ABOVE THE LAW
Duties of pedestrians
1) Whenever a sidewalk or footpath abuts on the roadway of a public road, a pedestrian shall not walk on such roadway except for the purpose of crossing from one side of such roadway to the other or for some other sufficient reason.
2) A pedestrian on a public road which has no sidewalk or footpath abutting on the roadway, shall walk as near as is practicable to the edge of the roadway on his or her right-hand side so as to face oncoming traffic on such roadway, except where the presence of pedestrians on the roadway is prohibited by a prescribed road traffic sign.
3) No pedestrian shall cross a public road without satisfying himself or herself that the roadway is sufficiently free from oncoming traffic to permit him or her to cross the road in safety.
4) A pedestrian, when crossing a public road by means of a pedestrian crossing or in any other manner, shall not linger on such road but shall proceed with due despatch.
5) No pedestrian on a public road shall conduct himself or herself in such a manner as to or as is likely to constitute a source of danger to himself or herself or to other traffic which is or may be on such road.
6) A pedestrian may cross a public road only at a pedestrian crossing or an intersection or at a distance further than 50 metres from such pedestrian crossing or intersection.
AthenianOwl
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Such a powerful image. Change's coming, guys. I can feel it.
dualmeister
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Can't really tell if I'm looking at a protest or the paid municipal works I see every day
ISP cash cow
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Can't really tell if I'm looking at a protest or the paid municipal works I see every day
I just see garbage all over that road. They should call pickitup and remove said crap from the roads.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
So you support anarchy and law breaking. Whoopee.
Johnatan56
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He doesn't state that he supports it, just that change shall be happening.
Fulcrum29
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Define this change?
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
The statement "Such a powerful image" leads me to believe that he condones what is depicted in the picture.
The picture depicts an act of law-breaking.
daveza
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So wherever you went to school you were taught that power is the same as stupid ?
PS: There is no such word as change's.
Sinbad
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Contraction of "change is". Perfectly valid.
Neoprod
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In practical terms, tell us what change you would like to see. We have a simple financial problem here - the university isn't being funded at the same level as Government used to while it's costs are increasing. Without diminishing the level of service provided and without increases in fees, where do you see the additional funds coming from to meet expenses?
Singer and rapper join protesting Wits students
Naledi Shange, Jeanette Chabalala, and Adam Wakefield
Johannesburg - Singer and songwriter Simphiwe Dana and rapper AKA have shown their support for protesting Witwatersrand University students by joining them outside the Wits Medical School and spending time with them before heading back to the main campus where Dana was expected to perform.
The students are protesting against the 10.5% increase in fees.
The musicians joined the students outside the medical school and marched back to the main campus with them.
They are waiting to hear the outcome of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's meeting with university vice chancellors held earlier on Tuesday.
The meeting, held between 11:00 and 13:00 according to Wits spokesperson Shirona Patel, was about the student fee protests that have sprung up at universities across the country.
Nzimande is expected to address media in Cape Town later on Tuesday.
There were not as many students outside the medical school as there were on the main campus on Monday, but their numbers swelled prior to their march back to the main campus on Tuesday.
Police had earlier threatened to move students by force from York Road outside the medical school. Students disrupted traffic and threatened journalists who they said were giving negative coverage on the protests. Only ambulances were allowed to enter the medical campus.
Patel told News24 that exams planned at the medical school on Tuesday had to be cancelled and rescheduled because of the protests.
Protests have occurred at the University of Cape Town, Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Stellenbosch University and, most recently, at the University of Fort Hare.
A protest is planned by students at the University of Pretoria on Wednesday.
In an interview on Tuesday, ANC Youth League president Collen Maine told News24: "If the minister [Nzimande] cared enough he would have dealt with these issues [the protests] just after Wits because this was an indication that more was coming.
"We need an indication from him as a minister [on] whether he can clearly render issues of higher education or not. If he cannot he must say that to the president [Jacob Zuma] and then the president must assist students of this country by placing somebody who will do that."
Maine said Nzimande should have gone to Wits to speak to the students himself to inform them on how he would intervene.
"All of us can make noise about it saying we support the struggle but ultimately... there is a problem in the authority," he said, referring to Nzimande and his department.
"So we must just be told if there is a capacity to render issues of higher education."
During a media briefing on Monday, Nzimande said the student protests were not a national crisis and could be resolved.
But Maine disagreed, stating there was a crisis.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Singer-and-rapper-join-protesting-Wits-students-20151020
Naledi Shange, Jeanette Chabalala, and Adam Wakefield
Johannesburg - Singer and songwriter Simphiwe Dana and rapper AKA have shown their support for protesting Witwatersrand University students by joining them outside the Wits Medical School and spending time with them before heading back to the main campus where Dana was expected to perform.
The students are protesting against the 10.5% increase in fees.
The musicians joined the students outside the medical school and marched back to the main campus with them.
They are waiting to hear the outcome of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's meeting with university vice chancellors held earlier on Tuesday.
The meeting, held between 11:00 and 13:00 according to Wits spokesperson Shirona Patel, was about the student fee protests that have sprung up at universities across the country.
Nzimande is expected to address media in Cape Town later on Tuesday.
There were not as many students outside the medical school as there were on the main campus on Monday, but their numbers swelled prior to their march back to the main campus on Tuesday.
Police had earlier threatened to move students by force from York Road outside the medical school. Students disrupted traffic and threatened journalists who they said were giving negative coverage on the protests. Only ambulances were allowed to enter the medical campus.
Patel told News24 that exams planned at the medical school on Tuesday had to be cancelled and rescheduled because of the protests.
Protests have occurred at the University of Cape Town, Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Stellenbosch University and, most recently, at the University of Fort Hare.
A protest is planned by students at the University of Pretoria on Wednesday.
In an interview on Tuesday, ANC Youth League president Collen Maine told News24: "If the minister [Nzimande] cared enough he would have dealt with these issues [the protests] just after Wits because this was an indication that more was coming.
"We need an indication from him as a minister [on] whether he can clearly render issues of higher education or not. If he cannot he must say that to the president [Jacob Zuma] and then the president must assist students of this country by placing somebody who will do that."
Maine said Nzimande should have gone to Wits to speak to the students himself to inform them on how he would intervene.
"All of us can make noise about it saying we support the struggle but ultimately... there is a problem in the authority," he said, referring to Nzimande and his department.
"So we must just be told if there is a capacity to render issues of higher education."
During a media briefing on Monday, Nzimande said the student protests were not a national crisis and could be resolved.
But Maine disagreed, stating there was a crisis.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Singer-and-rapper-join-protesting-Wits-students-20151020
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