Despite promises of reform following the 2015 protests, South African students face mounting debt, housing crises, and mental health challenges, while universities struggle with funding shortfalls.
The Fees Must Fall movement resurges as students carry out a nationwide shutdown and continue to call on the government for free, quality and decolonised education for all.
South African rapper, AKA, has called out the South African police for firing at students during ongoing fees protests at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Amid continued protests against the financial exclusion of students from Wits University, the South African police have reportedly killed one person, 35-year-old Mthokozisi Ntumba.
The internationally-acclaimed filmmaker talks about documenting one of the largest student movements of the 21st century in 'Everything Must Fall'.
Black people unabashedly celebrating their graduations their own way? We're here for it.
The late anti-Apartheid struggle veteran was the subject of the struggle song sung by Fees Must Fall activists.
The university has since been closed.
Students are protesting the financial exclusion of their peers based on historical debt.
The shutdown is a result of students struggling with funding for the new academic year.
Nompendulo Mkhatshwa, the prominent Fees Must Fall activist, is set to sit in parliament with the ruling party ANC.
The Council of the University made the historic decision of renaming their Memorial Hall in honor of the young enslaved Khoi woman, Sarah Baartman.