The UZ Students Representative Council (SRC) approached the
High Court challenging a staggering 1 000% fees hike in September.
Under the new fees structure, undergraduate students have
to pay as much as $500 000 and a million for masters studies per semester.
However, High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi postponed
the matter to November 24 saying he needed more time to come up with a ruling.
“It’s a case of bringing the vice-chancellor and the
minister who made the suggestion together and hear the reasons for the increase
in fees, so as to know whether it’s deemed as a necessary measure, knowing how
the decision came about will shed more light on how to go about this case,
hence hearing is set for November 24,” said Chitapi.
According to the students’ lawyer Tendai Biti, the fees
hike was unjustified.
In their submissions, the UZ students said: “Consultations
were done the wrong way as just one member of the SRC was requested to attend
the meeting when by right other members of the council were supposed to be
present there.
“By right the process of fees hiking should have been done
the right way and that involves consultations with the students’ council, the
finance committee and the financial council. All of these mentioned parties
were not involved in this unlawful act.” Newsday
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