The first day of the academic year at the Fort Hare East London campus was marred with disruptions this morning.
When DispatchLive arrived there just after 8am, hundreds of students were gathered outside the campus.
They were adhering to a call made by the SRC on the university's facebook page last night that they should gather there in the morning and not attend classes.
This was after the SRC premier Kwanele Ntantala told hundreds of students who were gathered in front of the university’s premises that there would be no classes until the university had sorted out the issue of accommodation.
Ntantala told DispatchLive that about 400 registered students were still without accommodation.
“We started engaging with the management on the issue of accommodation since last year and we spent the whole of last week engaging with them and they have been promising to get back to us.
We cannot go to lectures while there are hundreds of deserving students that still do not have a place to sleep. We will carry on with the stayaway until all the students are accommodated,” he said.
Attempts to get hold of the university spokesman Khotso Moabi were unsuccessful as his phone went to voicemail.
He had not responded to questions sent to him via email at the time of publishing the story.
Students boycott classes in Fort Hare stayaway
When DispatchLive arrived there just after 8am, hundreds of students were gathered outside the campus.
They were adhering to a call made by the SRC on the university's facebook page last night that they should gather there in the morning and not attend classes.
This was after the SRC premier Kwanele Ntantala told hundreds of students who were gathered in front of the university’s premises that there would be no classes until the university had sorted out the issue of accommodation.
Ntantala told DispatchLive that about 400 registered students were still without accommodation.
“We started engaging with the management on the issue of accommodation since last year and we spent the whole of last week engaging with them and they have been promising to get back to us.
We cannot go to lectures while there are hundreds of deserving students that still do not have a place to sleep. We will carry on with the stayaway until all the students are accommodated,” he said.
Attempts to get hold of the university spokesman Khotso Moabi were unsuccessful as his phone went to voicemail.
He had not responded to questions sent to him via email at the time of publishing the story.
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