Breakfast Edition: 23 October 2015

FEES MUST FALL: The growing student #FeesMustFall campaign moves to the streets of Pretoria today and is expected to end at the Union Building where President Jacob Zuma and representatives of universities and students are to discuss the demand for a 0% fee increase. The expectation is that fees increase for 2016 could be frozen which is what students have been asking for. Meanwhile police undertook not to use 'unreasonable force' on student protesters as a result of urgent court action. After a day of negotiations, the South African Police Service has agreed "not to use unreasonable force to disperse peaceful gatherings relating to tuition fee increases at South African universities. This was stipulated in a draft order made by agreement at the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. Yesterday thousands of students handed over a memorandum to the ANC's Gwede Mantashe at the party's headquarters, Lethuli House.

ANC REACTS TO STUDENT MARCH: The ANC Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe has appealed to ANC-members to support today's march. He was speaking at Luthuli House late yesterday, along with ANC-alliance partners in response to the student's earlier march to the ANC Headquarters. 

MAP OF TODAY'S MARCH TO UNION BUILDINGS IN PRETORIA: Students will march to the Union Buildings today, while President Jacob Zuma is expected to meet with representatives to try and solve the current student uprising.

SOLIDARITY MARCHES AROUND THE COUNTRY: Students in other parts of the country - and even in London - have pledged support for today's #FeesMustFall march to the Union Buildings - and have organised solidarity marches. In London, students will be picketing outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square in support of a 0% varisty fee increase for next year. Students at the University of the Free State remain defiant, despite the arrest of 15 students expected to appear in court today on charges that they contravened a court order issued by the university forcing them to leave the campus. 

SOME UNIVERSITIES SUPPORTING STUDENTS: Some universities, including Wits where the #FeesMustFall campaign started, now support their student's demands. Wits vice chancellor, Adam Habib took it on the chin.

ESKOM APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Power utility, Eskom has moved to stabilize its management structure with the appointment of a new executive committee structure to implement the company's turnaround strategy. Eskom's Khulu Phasiwe says this is to fill the gaps left by several top management leaving some months ago.

CAMERON AND XI GO FOR FISH & CHIPS: Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for a traditional British pub on Thursday, during his state visit, indulging in a beer and a portion of traditional fish and chips with Prime Minister David Cameron. The two world leaders, in suits but tieless, could be seen awkwardly sipping their ales at The Plough, an establishment close to the British prime minister's residence of Chequers northwest of London. "I dropped into The Plough at Cadsden for a pint of IPA and some fish and chips with China's President Xi," Cameron tweeted afterwards, along with a picture of him talking to Xi in which hunting guns could be seen hanging on the bare-brick wall behind them.

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