How student protests forced a campus worker into a shelter
The Fees Must Fall protests had dire consequences for café employee Eddie Cordor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) — he was forced to live in a shelter. Cordor‚ who is from Tanzania‚ works at Pandaland on campus and gets a weekly salary‚ depending on the volume of food sales. These have taken a dip after weeks of classes being disrupted‚ faeces throwing‚ stun grenades and pleas from protesting students for free tertiary education. Unable to pay for his accommodation‚ he was forced to sleep in a shelter. But‚ in a heart-warming twist‚ civil engineering student Phil Oertel came to his rescue‚ using Facebook to restore his dignity and pride. Oertel told CapeTalk radio on Wednesday that he had offered Cordor a spare room to stay in at his apartment‚ while crowd-sourcing funds on Facebook to get him a roof over his head.
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