STUDENT leaders belonging to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have taken over a portion of the office of University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Adam Habib.They arrived at Mr Habib’s office at midday on Wednesday, and by Thursday the group of 12 — all in their 20s and clad in red T-shirts and matching berets — sang struggle songs, worked on their laptops and read books as they waited for Mr Habib’s arrival, expected by 4pm.Leader of the group Vuyani Pambo said they demanded that the EFF be registered as a student organisation. "We cannot assemble as EFF at Wits. We cannot even organise a venue."Mr Pambo blames the Wits student representative council (SRC) — led by the African National Congress-aligned Progressive Youth Alliance — for the EFF supporters’ misery.According to the Vuvuzela student newspaper, Wits’ dean of students, Pamela Dube, said last month that the EFF would this year not be recognised as a student society. She reportedly said the party submitted its appl...
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