Lectures at the University of the North West’s Mafikeng campus will continue as normal on Wednesday following protests by students.
”A court interdict was served on the South African Students Congress (Sasco) and ANC youth league to call off the illegal protest,” university spokesperson Sam Motabogi said on Tuesday.
Students belonging to both organisations embarked on a strike on Tuesday morning after university management decided not to register students with unpaid fees.
Motabogi claimed two students ”colluded” with a staff member to be registered for 2006, even though they had outstanding fees.
”They colluded with one of the staff members working with the registration. Management picked it up while reviewing registrations. Action will be taken against the staff member,” said Motabogi.
The two were subsequently de-registered.
Students barricaded the campus’s entrance with burning tyres and dustbins on Tuesday morning, preventing staff and management from entering.
”We are demanding that those students who they refused to register must be registered, and that those in their last year doing one course must be allowed to write supplementary exams,” said North West Sasco chairman Mothusi Tsineng.
”The rector said they are not going to allow anyone to register who does not have money,” he claimed.
Sasco was demanding that students unable to graduate because they still had unpaid fees be allowed to do so. Tsineng could not say how many students were affected.
He said students would respect the interdict, served on them late on Tuesday morning.
It prevents them from erecting barricades on campus, disrupting teaching, burning tyres and holding meetings without management’s approval.
They would oppose the interdict in court, he said. — Sapa