This after the SAUS met Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela in Pretoria on Saturday to discuss a memorandum of demands.

Students want all historical debt to be abandoned, among other issues.

Last week, there were protests at some universities with one person killed near Wits University, and many arrested.

The union's deputy secretary-general, Sibusiso Thwala, said following Saturday’s failed meeting with Manamela they have resolved to force the government to listen to them.

“The responses of the minister of higher education as outlined by the deputy minister yesterday, are responses we see as a lack of commitment by the ministry to urgently resolve the needs of students.”

EWN