Students at Walter Sisulu University’s Butterworth campus have this morning joined Mthatha and Buffalo City campuses on a class boycott.
In all three campuses, academic activities have been disrupted as students protest over accommodation-related issues.
Students at the Mthatha campuses at Nelson Mandela Drive and Zamukulungisa learning sites started boycotting classes last week.
Early this week, they were joined by students from the Buffalo City Campus.
Yesterday, students at the Butterworth Campus had a mass meeting where they also decided to embark on protest action.
SRC president at the Butterworth campus Siphelo Mkhungazwe said students had a mass meeting on Wednesday and “agreed that enough is enough”.
He said students took a decision to shutdown the campus until their demands were met.
“All campus operations are suspended, no staff member is expected to come on duty until we
are given what we want as general students of Butterworth Campus,” he said.
This happens as protest at two other campus of the university are intensifying unabated.
Talks between the management of the Buffalo City Campus and the SRC collapsed as no agreement was reached in a meeting that took place until Wednesday evening.
Secretary Luvo Quvile said negotiations took “an unexpected turn” as the management did not agree to most of their demands.
“Students has made it clear that they will only go to class after their demands have been met. They also clarified that they do not want written down commitments, but implementation of their demands,” he said.
It was a cat and a mouse game between police and the WSU’s Buffalo City campus students on the streets of Southernwood on Wednesday night as the police checked or chased after students who were blocking most streets in the area with fire.
Situation remains tense at the Mthatha campus this morning. Police were called on Wednesday after protesting students allegedly set alight a vehicle belonging to a security company that is temporarily hired to safeguard the campus.
University spokeswoman Yonela Tukwayo told DispatchLive that the university would have to look at alternative measures to protect their property from being vandalised.
Hundreds of students front the university’s Ibika campus are demonstrating outside the campus preventing anyone from entering.
WSU Butterworth campus students join boycott
In all three campuses, academic activities have been disrupted as students protest over accommodation-related issues.
Students at the Mthatha campuses at Nelson Mandela Drive and Zamukulungisa learning sites started boycotting classes last week.
Early this week, they were joined by students from the Buffalo City Campus.
Yesterday, students at the Butterworth Campus had a mass meeting where they also decided to embark on protest action.
SRC president at the Butterworth campus Siphelo Mkhungazwe said students had a mass meeting on Wednesday and “agreed that enough is enough”.
He said students took a decision to shutdown the campus until their demands were met.
“All campus operations are suspended, no staff member is expected to come on duty until we
are given what we want as general students of Butterworth Campus,” he said.
This happens as protest at two other campus of the university are intensifying unabated.
Talks between the management of the Buffalo City Campus and the SRC collapsed as no agreement was reached in a meeting that took place until Wednesday evening.
Secretary Luvo Quvile said negotiations took “an unexpected turn” as the management did not agree to most of their demands.
“Students has made it clear that they will only go to class after their demands have been met. They also clarified that they do not want written down commitments, but implementation of their demands,” he said.
It was a cat and a mouse game between police and the WSU’s Buffalo City campus students on the streets of Southernwood on Wednesday night as the police checked or chased after students who were blocking most streets in the area with fire.
Situation remains tense at the Mthatha campus this morning. Police were called on Wednesday after protesting students allegedly set alight a vehicle belonging to a security company that is temporarily hired to safeguard the campus.
University spokeswoman Yonela Tukwayo told DispatchLive that the university would have to look at alternative measures to protect their property from being vandalised.
Hundreds of students front the university’s Ibika campus are demonstrating outside the campus preventing anyone from entering.
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