University of Limpopo students have suspended studies over
the absence of warm water and Wi-Fi among other things.
Students on Monday
gathered at Thami Square were they resolved to suspend studies until
their demands are met. These included overcrowding in classes, student
assistant salaries and maintenance of all residences.
Students Representative Council (SRC) president Njabulo
Mkhonto, who led a group of students to fetch vice-chancellor Mahlo Mokgalong
from his chambers to come and receive the memorandum, said they demanded both
warm and cold water to run the whole
week without any interruptions.
"We demand 24/7 warm and cold water in all relevant
taps of the university, not these timetable processes we had been experiencing.
"All residences must be maintained which must also
include Wi-Fi," read the memorandum.
Mkhonto said they had further resolved to march to the
Union Buildings because the National Student Financial Aid Scheme was failing
to respond to their needs.
"As always NSFAS is failing to respond to our issues
and they are always referring us to the Union Buildings. We have therefore
resolved on taking all students to the Union Buildings and we demand that the
university provide us with transportation to Pretoria," he said.
Responding to the demands, Mokgalong said he had attended
to some of the issues but NSFAS was out of his hands.
"They say want to go to the Union Buildings to march
against NSFAS, it has got nothing to do with me. Students are allowed to
suspend classes of they so wish," he said.
A lecturer who wished to remain anonymous said a group of
students clad in ANC and EFF T-shirts interrupted his class and demanded that
all students get out.
Mkhonto added that they demand student assistant salaries
be paid with their promised increase.
"We also demand a practical allowance for nursing,
pharmacy and dietician students. We demand washing machines which operate for
free," he said. News24
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