Universities South Africa (USAf) has slated an assassination attempt on University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu and the death of his aide.
died in a hail of bullets outside his house on Friday night, as the vice-chancellor cleans up corruption at the university.
In a statement on Saturday USAf said: “The board of directors of Universities South Africa expresses its shock at the murder of the University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor’s security aide and driver, Mr Mboneli Vesele — in what the university has reported as an assassination attempt on UFH’s vice-chancellor and principal, Prof Sakhela Buhlungu, on Friday night.
“As vice-chancellors, we are deeply saddened by this particular development, which took place within the premises of a university campus. Reports which indicate that this might have been an attempt on the life of our colleague, Prof Buhlungu, are hugely shocking,” USAf’s chairperson, Prof Sibongile Muthwa, said.
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