Sasco and Nehawu shut down University of SA over multiple financial disputes
The South African Students Congress (Sasco) and the National Health Education and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) have joined forces to shut down the University of SA (Unisa).This forced potential students to abandon their applications and registrations at the university’s Sunnyside campus in Pretoria on Wednesday.The two formations have consolidated their myriad of demands to the university‚ with Sasco saying it was practical for students to be in solidarity with the union as the workers were their parents. Nehawu has deadlocked with Unisa management on the union’s demand for a 12% wage increase‚ with the university management offering 4.5%.Sasco is demanding‚ among other things‚ the scrapping of students’ historic debt and the abolishment of application and registration fees.Nehawu has shut down all the university’s campuses, which are due to remain shut until their demands are met, according to the union’s national organiser Ntsako Nombelani. He said they were willing to settle for...
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