Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has given the University of Fort Hare council an ultimatum: resolve burning issues with other stakeholders, or face being dissolved.
Nzimande visited the university on Friday to meet with the council. He said he had received several correspondences that suggested all was not well at the university.
The SIU has been probing corruption, maladministration and allegations of academic fraud involving Eastern Cape senior politicians, including Premier Oscar Mabuyane, former premier Noxolo Kiviet, who is now the Minister of Public Service and Administration, and others. "Tuesday next week they must meet, and when they meet, they must discuss everything, including issues raised by the disgruntled components of council. There must be no no-go areas in terms of discussions," he said.
Nzimande also condemned the assault and mugging of three women students on their way to the university's Alice campus, the rape and murder of a student outside on the Tyhume River bridge that connects Alice to the university campus, and an incident in which a member of the university's protection unit was killed, among others.
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