Unlike the dispute over fee-free education at other institutions, the University of Zululand is closed because of a staff protest over poor pay.
The Wits vice-chancellor confirmed that measures have been taken to protect his house as a result of recent threats.
Though well intended, the plan’s focus should be on primary schools, say its critics.
Ongoing students protests over demands for fee-free education forced the university to shut down.
A private security guard is recovering in hospital after he was struck on the head by a rock thrown by rampaging students.
Academics are said to be working with students who are disrupting universities.
This figure excludes the socioeconomic costs to the entire university community.
Nehawu deputy secretary Hlakaniphani Jamile says in a 13-page submission that vice-chancellor Xoliswa Mtose removed courses from the qualification.
The University of Zululand is once again in the news about fake degrees, this time over teachers who do not appear on its graduation lists.
University of KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson Lesiba Seshoka said, however, lectures at the institution’s four campuses were taking place as normal.