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Government has contributed over R4 billion towards covering university fee increases, says Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has raised R100 million to support the studies of almost 2 500 missing middle students.

A roadmap to finance the study costs of poor and working class students is needed to address the ongoing university fees protests across the country, government said on Wednesday.

The stalemate in the tertiary education sector continues as classes countrywide have been disrupted, with many universities having to amend their 2016 academic calendars.

Former Wits student leader, advocate , says if government really wanted to provide free higher education, it would make it a priority.

South Africans are called to make written submissions to the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training, referred to as the Fees Commission, says Parliament.