This week The South African Human Rights Commission , will ask the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, to allow it to partake in the proceedings as a friend of the court.
the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command has brought an urgent motion against the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande and Unisa to have the higher education minister’s decision to direct Unisa to reduce its 2021 first-time students intake by 20 000 to be declared unlawful and invalid.
The Commission intends on arguing that the minister’s decision to exclude thousands of first-years from enrolling later this month for the academic year, is simply irrational.
The commission has previously earlier initiated a public national hearing to investigate the issues regarding racial integration and transformation at South Africa’s public universities to determine whether institutions of higher learning such as Unisa have sufficiently transformed in the past 20 years.
The investigation reflected that black students still suffer inequalities, patterns of systematic exclusion and marginalisation.