Two University of the Western Cape council members have been suspended pending an investigation into their conduct, the institution’s council said in a statement on Thursday. Council took the decision on the first day of its two-day meeting, which began on Thursday, where it deliberated over issues clouding the university.[…]
The University of the Western Cape’s student representative council (SRC) on Wednesday issued an urgent memorandum to the university’s council, calling for a lasting solution to student debt. SRC president Akhona Landu said in a statement that the council would sit on Friday to deliberate on governance issues. The council[…]
Deputy General Secretary Jeremy Cronin blamed Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (Pasma) for the looting and disruption of exams at University of Western Cape (UWC). Cronin said they (SACP) needed to expose a small minority of externally funded anarchist who were seeking to use[…]
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has scrapped its end-of-year exams for first- and second-year students, while final-year students will continue to write. UWC said it was providing off-campus accommodation to some of the estimated 600 final-year and postgraduate students who were scheduled to write their final exams. They[…]
A member of the Fees Must Fall movement at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has conceded that the student movement has lost control of students who have revolted on campus by looting resources and set buildings alight. UWC and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) remains on[…]
Parents of protesting UWC and CPUT students have united to form the Fees Must Fall Parents Solidarity Committee, following allegations of police brutality against some students. The two Belville-based institutions have been the scene of violent protests over the past week, carrying on from the successful nationwide #FeesMustFall campaign that[…]
Demands that lack legitimacy. A student leadership not elected through a democratic process. Students with leaders who lack negotiation experience. These were some of the factors that have led to the continued protests at the University of the Western Cape said the South African Institute of Race Relations’ Sara Gon.[…]
Three more students were arrested at the University of the Western Cape’s Bellville campus on Monday after two residences were set alight. UWC spokesperson Luthando Tyhalibongo confirmed that the Kovacs and Res 1 residences were damaged in incidents of arson. Protests were also ongoing at the Chris Hani residence. Earlier[…]
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has cancelled exams that were scheduled to start on Monday amid threats by protesting students. The university on Friday issued a statement on its website that it is deeply concerned about the continuation of the examinations in the current format. “The latest developments[…]
Exams at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) will continue on Monday, the institution said on Thursday. Exams, which were cancelled this week because of the violent protests on campus, would be repeated the week of December 1, UWC spokesperson Luthando Tyhalibongo said in a statement. UWC was doing[…]
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