UFH students given deadline to vacate residence

University of Fort Hare students who have not been allocated accommodation had until 5pm to vacate the rooms they are squatting in.

This comes after a notice was given to nursing students who were temporarily staying at Elwandle residence to move to their Glen Eaglen residence.

The announcement means hundreds of the students temporarily accommodated at Glen Eaglen in the Quigney will have to make way for the nursing students.

“The matron says if we do not vacate, extra security officers will be deployed to force us out of the Elwandle residence by 5pm today,” said one of the student leaders Dibakazi Mampete.

She appealed to the university management to allow students without accommodation to squat.

SRC residence officer told DispatchLive this afternoon that he and other student leaders were on their way Glen Eaglen residence to try to resolve the problem.

“We really to not have a plan at the moment. We do not know where those students are going to sleep tonight,” he said.

University spokesman Khotso Moabi has in the past told DispatchLive that they were still in a process of procuring accommodation for the NSFAS qualifying students.

The academic year only started on Monday after students boycotted lectures in an attempt to force the management to provide accommodation for all students who need it.