Wits university says it has suspended 'disruptors who transgressed the university’s rules' during ongoing protests at the institution.
Students gather outside the University of the Witwatersrand's Great Hall in Johannesburg on March 2 2023 to protest about the exclusion of students who are unable to pay historical debt.Wits University has suspended “disruptors who transgressed the university’s rules” during ongoing protests at the institution, it said in a statement released on Thursday night.
“This afternoon we issued multiple suspension orders to disruptors who transgressed the university’s rules. The legal office will continue to work through the evidence submitted by the Wits community to ensure perpetrators who can be identified are charged,” the university said. “During the course of the suspension processes and other investigations, we found some perpetrators who were committing infractions were academically excluded. Some had failed multiple times, had lost their funding and were demanding to be registered,” it said.Shops were forcefully shut, roads blocked and infrastructure damaged in the ensuing chaos in streets in Braamfontein.
Protesting students were calling for an end to financial exclusion, for the cap on residence allowances from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to be scrapped and a lack of accommodation rectified. The university said it had reached out to the school’s student representative council which had “declined to engage” with Wits management.“lecturers and academics to make up for any time lost today, and to upload relevant material to ulwazi [the portal]”.We are managing the situation and we thank you for your patience and cooperation.”
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