🔒 Student leaders at the Tshwane University of Technology are accusing the university of shunning its responsibilities by wanting students who live in back rooms to enter into lease agreements with their landlords.
Impasse: The university wants students to provide lease agreements to qualify for meal allowances. Photo: Deaan Vivier/Gallo Images/Netwerk24
Student leaders at the Tshwane University of Technology are accusing the university of shunning its responsibilities by wanting students who live in back rooms to enter into lease agreements with their landlords. The university announced on Wednesday the indefinite shutdown of its campuses after student protests over meal allowances and the shortage of accommodation. It is the second shutdown in a week — TUT suspended all activities at the end of February because of protests over the same issues.
President of the transitional student representative council , Dineo Hlagala, says students who are funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and who live in back rooms are not getting their meal allowances because they do not have lease agreements with their landlords and therefore do not qualify for the allowances.
Hlagala says the department of higher education and training put the policy in place even though it is aware of the shortage of on-campus student accommodation.
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