Students are fearful of speaking out, and also feel they are unable to engage management on their grievances over fees.🧑💻
Registration fees for post-graduate programmes will increase from R7,500 to R10,000 in 2023 and then to R12,500 in 2024, with international students expected to fork out R40,000 on registration and half of their fees.prima facieIntimidation
She said they then held a mass student meeting on Monday, during which they agreed to a protest to voice their grievances, but the university responded by threatening students through e-mails and text messages.“The threats have forced students to back down and abandon their support for the action for fear of being suspended. So, there is that element of fear that the university is employing to intimidate us instead of engaging,” Mashila said.
But Mashila argued that 20% of students were funded by NSFAS, which she said was about 13,000 students. She said the problem is that is would take time to confirm which students would be funded. She added that these are students who could not even afford the current registration fees and that the university also failed to consider the fact that NSFAS did not have funds to cover all needy students.unit, said the increases meant he would not be in a financial position to register for his final year in 2023.
“They even fear taking the pamphlets, let alone distribute them on campus. We have resorted to pasting the pamphlets in bathrooms,” he said. He said these temporary suspensions will be lifted immediately once the students commit to avoiding all actions that disrupt teaching and learning and all operational activities of the university.
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