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If you still believe that there is no impending danger in the future of higher education in SA you are on a long thing living in Pluto and not on earth. If also you believe that this #feesmustfall protest is like any other protests in the past you are also on a long thing.

Let me state here my post is not to deter anyone from coming to SA to study, no not at all, I just want to paint the true picture, what they are protetesting about is far more. Than fees, they want free education, they want decolonization of academic curriculum, they want people owing schools fees to be giving free bill, some students like UWC want 10 gigs data free, some residences in schools like Witts and UCT are allegedly reserved for whites, black students want it, the want more black professors, the list is endless. In as much as some reasons are just course, a lot are just outright bull s:it, if authorities concede, then standard of learning will fall cos already Schools are finding it hard to attract the best lecturers.
Never in the history of democratic SA has schools been shut down for 3 weeks, never so this is no ordinary protest.

Keneking:
I am sure everything is gonna be fine. The issue at Wits has to do with presence of SAPS on campus. For other institutions, the challenge is getting to class or losing an academic session next year.

Blade Nzimades' discussion at Imbizo yesterday does not look like its gonna yield any positives for student's call for free education.

Schools do not want to lose anything - completion of Year 2016 academic session, protection of assets, more funding from government/tuition and maintenance of top ranking.

Thank you for saying the reality

[quote author=samuelUMOH post=49911957][/quote]Jeez, how as my statement discouraged people, can't you see the protests on TV, are you in another world, for the first time in the history of fees protests three women went nu.de to protest, that is crazy in africa, culture. I am just saying what we saw on TV and you are saying am discouraging people. You just like white washing the true picture. Ther is a major possibility that this session might be shifed to next year and schools like Wits, UCT might not take new students for next year, why don't you want people to know this, if I do you will say I am discouraging people from coming, why won't I let them know its their choice to make. Maybe you are making money from gulible people on admission runs so you are not painting the true picture. Just search for #feesmustfall and #wits on social media and you will see how gory the protests have turned

friendly101:
Thanks brother. ...#winks#
Please who ever wanna come this month should get a jacket the cold his killing I almost turn into ice.....lol.

Cold in October?..... Where are you in SA?

This #feesmustfall protest has got out of hand mehn! Its so sad

justwise:
I don't make false or careless allegations, I have been following your posts recently and you made it clear that time for freebies are over because you run this as a business now.

I'm not going to dig this with you because it will have the opposite effect.

My initial post on this stands.

Yes no more freebies, but I won't come here and solicit for customers unless you ask me questions! When I was giving freebies people were shouting me down

justwise:
@staggerlee

I understand that you don't want to offer your advice for free anymore and I respect that however, I have to remind you that soliciting for clients through this thread will not be accepted. Asking people to pm you rather than answering the question here will also not be allowed.

Money doesn't exchange hands in whatever we do here.

Thank you.

Chief, I have never solicited for money from anyone through this thread, anyone that have asked to pM have never asked for financial gains. You can ask openly if anyone here has paid me anything or have asked anyone here for money.
Those that I told to PM me asked me questions I didn't go out of my way to ask them to PM me. Just some minutes ago I posted the new procedure of obtaining a SAPS police clearance for free. Only a privilege few know about the process as of today. I fear for ourselves o, since time in memorial that have been giving useful tips for free no one saw it as offensive now I am holding back because some haters here feel when I share am always boastful about it and I do over sabi its now an issue

I got this notification this morning. So its stressfree getting your polce clearance from SAPS
"RSA POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATES: URGENT NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS FOR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE VISAS AND PERMANENT RESIDENCE PERMITS

The Immigration Regulations of the Immigration Act, No. 13 of 2002 define a Police Clearance Certificate as follows:

 “A certificate issued by the police or security authority in each country where the relevant applicant resided for 12 months or longer after attaining the age of 18 years, in respect of criminal records or the character of that applicant, which certificate shall not be older than six months at the time of its submission: Provided that the certificate shall not be required from a foreign country in the case of renewal or extension of a visa but from the Republic”.

With effect from the 01st of October 2016 The Department of Home Affairs will automate the process of obtaining a South African Police Clearance Certificate. Instead of the applicant going to a police station to apply for a police clearance, VFS will use the applicant’s biometrics (fingerprints) which we are already collecting in the current process and use them to run background checks against the South African Police Services database. On receipt of the electronic police clearance VFS will merge the records with the main application and transmit the contents electronically to DHA as a full and complete application. The SAPS database background check will take an average of 24 – 36 hours, a great improvement from the 3 to 4 months that it takes currently to get a police clearance from SAPS, as reported by applicants. 

The total fee per adult applicant in addition for this service will R175.00 (Incl. VAT) per criminal background check. The Department is already running this process successfully for both the Zimbawean Special Permit and the Lesotho Special Permit applications. 

Please be advised that the current manual submission of RSA police clearances will be accepted until the 31st of October 2016. This automation of the police clearance is only applicable to RSA police clearance certificates. Any other Police Clearance Certificates issued by the police or security authority in each country where the relevant applicant resided for 12 months or longer after attaining the age of 18 years will still be accepted manually."

cutieme:
Hello house,please I need somebody to give me hints on how to apply for critical Visa,the requirements e.t.c

Where are you SA or Nigeria?

cutieme:
@staggerlee,pls bro,can someone with a degree certificate in chemistry apply for a critical work visa? thanks.

Yes but depends on a lot of criteria

beebwai:
u seem to be comfortable and quite informed too. I suppose I have a job. I want to know how available are jobs in the construction sector? Of course aftr studies. Thanks in advance

I used to have a job but resigned to face some business concerns in Nigeria and finish up my PHD. I shuttle between Nigeria and SA now, very often.
Am not sure of construction studiesn problem with construction is there are too many people in construction, you have civil engineering, regional planners, construction studirs in some schools it is construction engineers, so its a tough one but if it is possible

beebwai:
Hello, I have been a reader for a while, please which area of academics are u in @staggerlee ?

Electrical Engineering (Telecoms) why?

People like taking panadol for another man's headache sha

Dexcmd:
I hope everything normalize in SA schools cos most of us apsiring pg students already have saqa certificate, applied and paid for application fee, av close to enough funds to cover fees nd odas and we anticipating to resume next year. Most of us can't afford to opt to western schools(Usa, canada nd co) cos
1. obviously we would ve to wait til late next year (cos of toefl,gre etc nd admission), after aw many month on saqa nd waitin 4admission?
2. Expensive nt everyone can afford it
3. We've made grand plans to leave 9ja for studies early next year

Infact even 9ja schools application z closed nd some av writen postgraduate entrance exam like ui, nd unilorin so we stranded if d issue escalates further. May God help us

We can only hope it gets better but truth is can we hope for what the average citizen does not want? The average south african wants to have free education or else schools won't open. My school was in top 200 before but after last year's protests it dropped out a colleague of mine was trying to migrate to an europian country that's gives permanent residence to people who have a PG degree from these top 200 schools, now his bid has failed because his school has dropped out of top 200

bigerboy200:
Who this story epp? Smh....show off..

Chei, how is this show off? Please state the part that is show off? Nigerians we get bad belle sha

holluwai:
God bless you, I often think he's South African sometimes.

Why do you think am south african? I said the truth as it is and you all feel am persimistic. I started a visa consulting/advisory business here in south africa cos am privilege to know some immigration stuff more than the average immigrant but situation of things especially the universities is killing this business.

Keneking:
Oga - but you get your transcripts/ certificate once it scales through. The worry should be that external examiners approve the work without amendments.

Graduation is just a ceremony, mere formality. I understand how you feel. With respect to your cousin, we need to give upcoming scholars some opportunity to attend conferences oversea.

Take care man. I wish you the best!

Transcripts for PHD? I don't understand. Even undergraduates in my university are only given official transcripts after graduation.

Let's face reality, govt can't do sh*t, fees have to go up, the price of bread in 2014 is no more the same now so why should university fees remain the same. We got into this country when repo rate was 3.5% today it is 7% double. Once calenders are disrupted, it becomes a big issue, I just hope it doesn't get to that

geekybabe:
Mr stagerlee.. Mr South africa.

You and your pessimistic analogies. Stop discouraging people and stop responding to evrything especially if it's not directed to you. It's not a very good attitude.

How am I being persimistic? It does not pay me too, submitted my PHD thesis results is to come out sometimes in October but can't graduate in December anymore. Just saying what is on ground. We like sweet coating things, this is how we started in Naija, see where we are now in our unis. Except SA students nip this protest in the board today, their schools will go same way.
I have a cousin lecturing in witts, normally he goes for 3 int'l conferences in a year, this year he hasn't gone for one! No funds. Schools are now cutting corners, western lecturers are leaving in droves, that's the realistic situation not persimism

Keneking:
No graduation at year end, the issue is political and Pravin Gordhan must do the needful by bailing out education and #FEESMUSTFALL

The reality is that anything cheap is not good what govt should do is to give loans to citizens that can't afford it, which they are trying to do throughj NASFAS loans. The govt has no money bailing out schools, this is a bad day for SA schools. Once calenders are disrupted, its over, na so naija schools start, see where we are now

2016 academic session might spill to 2017, so its a tough one now for aspiring students coming into SA schools

samuelUMOH:
SA is not in any mess don't be mislead by comments .The students are protesting for free education which is a normal thing to them .Things will return to normal how does that affect your plans and application ?

UCT, Rhodes, Witts, Stellinbosch and a lot of other schools have suspended lectures for next week, that's a whole lot of mess if you compare it to western schools.

wine4dguy:
I should prolly hunt for alternatives

Alternatives should not be SA

wine4dguy:
Please I have applied to Witwatersrand and up till now I haven't heard from them should I be concerned

With the unrests going on in the Universities especially @ Witts, we can only hope

Keneking:
Source pls

The minister of higjer education Blade Nzimande was interviewed this morning on ENCA and he said if the protests continues the govt will have no choice but to shut down the schools to safeguard lives and properties.
Also yesterday in Durban Gwede Manteshebsaid the same thing but said it was his personal opinion.
I saw these interviews on tv

SA govt is considering closing down universities because of this resurfaced #feesmustfall protests.

scholarcute:
Gudday Nairalander, i summited my application at Abuja embassy on d 7th of sept n i got dis msg on my mail dis aftanoon.
Pls is dis msg usually sent bfr your passport is ready for collection.

Aplication has been forwarded to the South African Visa Application Centre, ABUJA from the South African High Commission, ABUJA on 21-09-2016 .

Pls I need urgent responses pls

It means your visa application is ready for collection at vfs