Zuma signs Higher Education Amendment Act

By Jenni Evans. President Jacob Zuma has signed the Higher Education Amendment Act, which gives Minister Blade Nzimande greater powers to intervene in university matters and furthers the government's higher education transformation plans.
"I am very excited," said MP Charles Kekana, whip of Parliament's committee on higher education, on Wednesday.
"We have been working very hard on it."
The central theme of the act, signed into law on Tuesday, was to make universities more inclusive, and to move away from old patterns of universities based on racial or language lines and to recognise African schools of thought and knowledge, explained Kekana. More...