September 20, 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Parks Tau tells Mashaba to ‘get on with it’

Wits SRC official says fee increases is traumatic

And, Motsoeneng to report for duty as 'ordinary employee'

 

Newly elected Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba needs to get on with his job and stop criticising the previous administration, his predecessor Parks Tau said yesterday.

Tau said Mashaba focused on the previous administration instead of putting current administration policies in place.

He said Mashaba had to prove to Johannesburg residents that he was capable and had alternative policies and programmes.

 

Students feel they are worse off following the announcement that university fee increases will be capped at 8%, University of Witwatersrand SRC secretary general said yesterday.

Fasiha Hassan said in many ways students were back to where they were last year, before fees must fall, and that was where the big source of anger came from.

She was reacting to Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s announcement earlier yesterday that university councils had to decide their own fee increases for next year, but that these could not exceed 8%.

South African Broadcasting Corporation COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng will report for duty as an "ordinary employee" today, his lawyer Zola Majavu told a news agency.

The Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday rejected his bid for leave to appeal against a High Court ruling that set aside his permanent appointment.

Majavu said Motsoeneng's appeal related to his dismissal as COO, but he was still a full-time employee of the public broadcaster.

The Ministry of Communications said it noted the SCA’s judgment.

 

Also making headlines:

Madonsela urged students to fight social injustice ‘with their minds’.

And, Stellenbosch University said proposed 8% hike will help needy students.

 

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