UNIVERSITY of the Witwatersrand (Wits) students on Wednesday said they were preparing to file an urgent interdict to stop the university from holding a referendum on the resumption of its academic programme.Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib intends polling the students on Thursday via SMS to see if there is an appetite for returning to school.Former Wits Student Representative Council president Mcebo Dlamini said the university’s statutes did not make provision for the vice-chancellor to conduct such a poll."We are not against any form of deliberation … but we are saying the rightful processes must be followed," he said.The students wanted a student assembly to deliberate rather than voting via phone."This is not a shebeen or a tavern where, as a vice-chancellor, you just wake up and decide people must vote," said Dlamini, adding that he was part of the group working on filing the court interdict.Wits spokeswoman Shirona Patel said its lawyers had received a letter informing them of a...
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