SASCO notes the snail pace of delivery on gadgets and data by government and institutions of higher learning especially in the Historically Disadvantaged Institutions (HDI’s) and Technical and Vocational and T […]

The South African Students’ Congress (SASCO) has perused the judgement handed down today virtually from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) South Africa on the matter between AFRIFORUM and University South Africa ( […]

On the occasion of 33rd Anniversary of NEHAWU, SASCO wishes it’s most reliable students-workers ally continued commitment to the struggle of workers of our country as the biggest affiliate of COSATU.

To us as […]

SASCO stands diametrically opposed to the statement made by the Chief Justice of the Republic in support of the Apartheid state of Israel. What’s even more worrying is that his statement comes at a time w […]

16th June 2020- Youth Day
PRELUDE

“Liberation is childbirth, and a painful one. The man or woman who emerges is a new person, viable only as of the oppressor or oppressed contradiction is superseded by the h […]

Greetings

Moment of silence: for lives lost to GBV & COVID-19

Today we remember the youth of 1976, who were at the frontline of the school boycotts of June 6 1976.

When students across the country decided, […]

The Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA), which comprises of the youth structures of the Mass Democratic Movement convened a virtual Secretariat meeting on the 13th of June 2020, to discuss the impact of the current […]

11 June 2020

FROM: Buthanani Goba
Secretary-General – SASCO

To: H. E Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
President – Arab Republic of Egypt

SUBJECT: FREEDOM FOR PATRICK GEORGE ZAKI

Your Excellency:

I res […]

The South African Students’ Congress (SASCO) notes the update on the return of students to institutions of higher learning and training as pronounced by the Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande. SASCO is convinced that t […]

SASCO would like to take this moment to wish the congress of South African Students a happy 41st anniversary, the student movement has in its 41 years of existence stood firm on the ideal and values of fighting […]

South African Students Congress (SASCO) joins South African Democratic Teachers’ Union [SADTU] and our reliable ally and sister organisation the Congress Of South Africans Students [COSAS] and other trade unions i […]

During the rise of the Roman empire (31 BC to 79 AD) a Roman emperor Augustus appointed a trusted general by the name Agrippa who was in charge of making sure that a strategy is developed to make Rome a great city […]

Africans across the world celebrate Africa Day on the 25th of May. The day is a precursor to the African Union (AU), the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) which came into being in 1963. The creation of these […]

As old as man, accountability and protest have accompanied our existence; some would argue that it has even lived longer than man. Any form of authority should be held accountable for their decisions and deeds […]

As the scholar, Simukai Chigudu aptly observed in his study of the 2008 cholera epidemic in 2008, “epidemics are tests of social and political systems”.

Covid-19 has done the same thing across the globe. The […]

“We Are Africans Not Because We Are Born In Africa But Because Africa Is Born In US” Kwame Nkrumah

Happy Africa day.

President Oliver Tambo made his timeless remark in his speech at the 60th anniversary […]

Millions of the inhabitants of our motherland do not consume required or sufficient energy/calories a day to sustain their livelihood and basic health care. Such people whose daily income is less than $1.9 are […]

The capitalist agenda has long reached its expiry date and the suffocating stench of this rot has been let loose by the menacing pandemic.

Those who have doggedly claimed the supremacy of the capitalist system […]

Introduction

Our education system still suffers from some of the apartheid patterns which entrenched ideas of our colonisers and continue to endorse a banking concept methodology. The triple challenges of […]