Top court upholds appeal court’s ruling on UCT ‘Shackville’ case
The Constitutional Court has upheld a prior ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) against five students involved in 2016’s "Shackville" protests at the University of Cape Town (UCT), in which students erected a shack on campus. The SCA had ruled that the manner in which the students protested was "harmful and unlawful" to the university. The Constitutional Court judgment was handed down by Justice Edwin Cameron on Wednesday. It came after the High Court in Cape Town had granted UCT an interim interdict on October 20 2016 against Alexandria Hotz, Masxole Mlandu, Chumani Maxwele, Slovo Magida and Zola Shokane. The five were subsequently also ordered to pay UCT’s costs jointly, including the costs of two counsel. Conditions attached to that interdict barred them from entering the university campus unless they had the university’s consent to be there for academic purposes, or to occupy student housing that had been allocated to them. The SCA subsequently ruled that the High Court ...
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