October 04, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Wits set to reopen, despite some defiance

ANC says Jordaan is redeployed to focus on winning 2019 elections

And, Zuma tells students that government heard them

Lectures are expected to resume at the University of the Witwatersrand  today, following three weeks of student protests.

On Monday afternoon, former Wits SRC leader Mcebo Dlamini, one of those leading the Fees Must Fall protests, told students that the university would remain shut.

This was despite the outcome of a poll in which staff and students voted overwhelmingly to reopen the institution.

Vice chancellor Adam Habib said there would be police and a full security contingent on all campuses and in all buildings today.

 

The ANC have confirmed that they have redeployed former mayor and leader of the opposition for Nelson Mandela Bay, Danny Jordaan, to focus on winning the provincial elections in 2019. 

Jordaan was appointed as mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay by President Jacob Zuma in May last year in an attempt to bring an end to political infighting in the region and secure the Northern Areas vote ahead of the local government elections.

He failed to do so, and the DA won a majority and secured the municipality through a coalition.

 

President Jacob Zuma yesterday acknowledged flaws in the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and promised that government would attend to them.

Zuma was speaking at the higher education summit in Kempton Park where he said government and the ANC would address students' legitimate concerns about the cost of higher education.

He said the call from students had been heard "loudly and clearly" and that since 1994 everything possible was being done to help students from poor households obtain post-school education.

 

Also making headlines:

Adam Habib says some students want their own Marikana.

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