An overwhelming sense of nope.

Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande says universities in the country can increase fees for 2017 but they must not exceed 8%.

Students want their grievances addressed by management on Thursday.

Well, that’s a relief.

The law library at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Howard College was set alight on Tuesday night and valuable books were destroyed in the process.

The Democratic Alliance’s Belinda Bozzoli has called on Zuma to make sure that university fee increases don’t affect poorer students.

Blade Nzimande on Wednesday told parliament’s portfolio committee on higher education that, should a 0% fee increase be carried over for a second year in a row, 19 universities would become dysfunctional by 2018.

Universities have been forced to put their budgets on hold pending the announcement of fee increases for next year, causing serious delays in operational matters.

Yesterday minister of higher education Blade Nzimande indicated that he and government have yet to make a decision on fee increases, but now it’s the universities that shoulder the ultimate responsibility…

Rumours of inflation-related higher education fee increases have sparked a fresh wave of student action nationally and police have been deployed to keep the peace.

As #FeesMustFallReloaded gains, even more, momentum online, the government and specifically minister of higher education, Blade Nzimande, are starting to panic a little.

Higher education minister Blade Nzimande’s sweating bullets as rumours of university fee increases in 2017 has student unions in a knot.

Whether or not and by how much university fees go up next year has been left up to president Zuma’s discretion.

Students are prepared to go on a year-long holiday should President Jacob Zuma not institute free education from next year, the South African Union of Students president (SAUS) Avela Mjajubana told News24 on Sunday.

Students from the Fees Must Fall movement say that there is nothing to discuss and their demands are well-known.

I’ll hazard a reasonable sum that this headline evokes a visceral response in almost everyone that reads it.

They fought for free education, but destroyed hundreds of millions of Rands worth of university property in the process. Guess how much the total cost of damages came to…

Public opinion is swinging back and forth between #FeesMustFall and its antagonists. It is time for us to separate the good arguments from the bad when it comes to the viability of free higher education in South Africa.

As the dust settles on a turbulent chapter of the South African student movement, fine art students from the University of Johannesburg speak to those most affected.

It goes without saying that if you’re responsible for the wellbeing of university students nationwide, Twitter really isn’t the best place you’re going to want to be engaging them. #AskBlade has gone bonkers-viral and it’s hilarious.

Watch as Liz Wheeler steps on a whole lotta toes as she tackles student protests with one short, loaded phrase.

According to the ANC youth league, the #FeesMustFall protests are being funded by white supremacists and the league is prepared to go toe-to-toe with student protesters if needs be.

As a recent graduate from UCT I find myself caught in the middle of two competing views; to support the #FeesMustFall movement is to stand by my feelings and ideology of where change is long overdue, but to support the behaviour of a minority of students that is currently playing out across campuses feels wrong at the deepest levels of my being.

This fight, mind you, is neither, destructive nor divisive. It is a fight that is geared towards ensuring that we too can liberate and empower ourselves – and those around us – through education.

This is the change that Mandella stood for- we finally made him proud. We took the seeds of change that he planted and harvested the fruit.