{"id":102064,"date":"2015-10-23T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=102064"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T13:12:08","slug":"watch-zuma-addresses-feesmustfall-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/102064\/watch-zuma-addresses-feesmustfall-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Zuma addresses #FeesMustFall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> In his address on the student protests, President Jacob Zuma agreed to a 0% fee increase for universities in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>There was also an agreement from universities to extend the exam period to make up for lost time during the protests.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the president said that government would look into the state of tertiary education, to find address institutional autonomy, student accommodation, racism, &#8220;black debt&#8221;, broader transformation issues.<\/p>\n<p>He called on students and concerned parties to give time for the various discussions, task teams and strategies to play out, to overcome these issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News group eNCA has provided a live streaming link to President Jacob Zuma addressing the nation &#8211; and the students &#8211; following protests outside of the Union Buildings on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Students across the country have been engaged in protest action at their respective universities, standing against proposed increases in fees for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations erupted at the University of the Witwatersrand last week, and quickly spread to other institutes across the country, including Stellenbosch, Rhodes and the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Students have demanded a 0% fee increment and others have also called for free tertiary education.<\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma, who was scheduled to meet with the students at noon, was meeting with ministers and student representatives over the issues raised by the #FeesMustFall movement.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency said in a statement that Zuma would address the nation at 14:45, though by 15:00 the broadcast had not yet started.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the stream live, here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lj5TPD9DaR8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on universities<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/102010\/what-you-need-to-know-about-university-fees-in-south-africa\/\">What you need to know about university fees in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"How much money students owe South Africa\u2019s universities\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/101826\/how-much-money-students-owe-south-africas-universities\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much money students owe South Africa\u2019s universities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/101734\/this-is-how-much-money-south-africas-top-universities-make\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is how much money South Africa\u2019s top universities make<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/101412\/here-are-south-africas-26-universities\/\">Here are South Africa\u2019s 26 universities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where you can watch President Jacob Zuma address protesting students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10682,26,6397],"class_list":["post-102064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-feesmustfall","tag-headline","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102064"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102088,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102064\/revisions\/102088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}