In a landmark development for South Africa’s tertiary education landscape, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) has officially gazetted the Policy for the Recognition of South ...

Only three South African universities have ranked among the top 500 tertiary institutions in the world in the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) for 2025. This is one fewer than in ...

After a hitman tried to assassinate the vice-chancellor of Fort Hare University but ended up gunning down the academic’s bodyguard, in January 2023, South Africa’s police abducted and tortured a union ...

Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Assistant Dean of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand The stories emerging about black students’ experiences in South African universities are ...

South African’s universties rank the best in the world when it comes to forging international partnerships, scoring the highest average in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) global rankings. South ...

On the 16th of May 2001 there was a protest against the financial exclusion of five hundred students on the campus of what was then the University of Durban-Westville in the city of Durban. A police ...