NATIONAL NEWS - Students at the University of Witwatersrand desperate for funding say they are tired of being given temporary hope and solutions to issues that have reduced them to living like beggars.
This comes after scores of students and members of the institution’s student representative council (SRC) went on a hunger strike early last week.
That progressed into a full-blown campus shutdown over their accommodation and financial woes.
Scores of students have been left homeless because the university has opted to prioritise first-year students in on-campus accommodation, while many are also still awaiting Nsfas funds to register.
Although the institution and SRC members reached an agreement to stop the protest by the end of the week, Wits Economic Freedom Fighters student command secretary Kamohelo Chauke said the agreement was like “putting a plaster on a gunshot wound”, because it was only a temporary solution to a much bigger issue that was still ongoing.
