Students Fight For Free Higher Education Continues

Ten years after the tumultuous events of the fees must fall movement universities across the country continue to be rocked by student protests related to fees.

The objectives now are similar to those then, to stop increases in student fees, as well as to increase government funding of universities.

Having promised in 2015 during student protests that there would be no tuition fee increases for 2016, mayhem broke out when in that year government announced that fee increases would be capped at 8 for 2017.

However, each university would have the autonomy to decide by how much their tuition would increase.

MK Party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu says he remembers what happened when the dust eventually settled.