Twenty six years have passed since South Africa overhauled the racist apartheid regime which was designed and sought to keep the country’s black majority under the rule of the white minority. While democracy has […]

As we continue to navigate the world of education in Covid19, – shortcomings of Online Education Language, Culture and Education are inseparable when it comes to teaching, hence the online with NOT immediately […]

INTRODUCTION

South Africa is a republic and a constitutional democracy. Republic and constitutional democracy are identical in every aspect except one In a constitutional democracy, the democratic process […]

Welcome to the 6th Edition of our online publication. On this month of May, we will continue to publish weekly and we will shift to celebrate not only our forebears but equally celebrate the Africa month, we […]

SASCO has learnt with shock that items belonging to students are being stolen in a number of tertiary owned residences across the country. Student rooms have been exposed to looting which is hidden behind […]

The South African Students Congress (SASCO) notes with utter dismay the pronouncement made by Minister Bonginkosi Nzimande, on measures to phase out the lockdown and phasing in of PSET strategic functions. We […]

Learning and the modes of learning are transforming rapidly as the world shifts towards a more digital approach, in an ideal world, this is a just transition, which offers us a more plausible approach towards […]

The South African Students Congress (SASCO) has for years been sharply raising structural challenges in the post-schooling and training sector. The student’s homelessness, infrastructural backlogs, curriculum t […]

What are structures and why does society put so much emphasis on being structured? If structures are the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex, how do we then formulate a […]

As the country and the world grapple with the global pandemic of the Corona Virus, there are two things that are certain; the first is that this pandemic will change the very fabric of society, in that it will  […]

Patrice Kindl in his writing of ‘Keeping the Castle’ best describes a bolt from the blue. I have sometimes read of an unexpected event described in this way, and now I know exactly what he meant by the phr […]

The quest to proceed with academic year online is an inhumane punishment on the majority who fall on the rough side of our extremely unequal lived reality which is a product of our colonialization

Firstly, we […]

ZANYIWE- The one who tries.

Two years post the death and silencing of a heroine and veteran against the struggle of inequality of man through racial lines, the exploitation of man through the biased class […]

Capitalism as a mode of production is based on private ownership of the means of production characterized by the elicitation of surplus value by the ruling class with the intentions aimed at capital accumulation […]

The higher education system of South consists of 50 Public TVET colleges and 26 Universities with nearly 2 million registered students spread across these institutions. Whilst 127 Private institutions of Higher […]

“Thus the awakening of the dead in those revolutionaries served the purpose of glorifying the new struggles, not of parodying the old; of magnifying the given task in the imagination, not recoiling from its s […]

The South African Students Congress is taken aback by governments’ continued fumbling and failure to provide sufficient and decisive leadership in the higher education sector in the midst of a global pandemic. […]

The Covid19 outbreak has managed to expose our government’s ability to accelerate service delivery when needed to and for obvious reasons, to respond speedily or face the consequences of a deadly virus to its p […]

INTRODUCTION

“Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases.

Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by […]

The evolvement of higher education in South Africa’s democratic dispensation cannot be separated from the influence of the South African Students Congress (SASCO), which will be celebrating its 30th anniversary i […]