Ceasefire as Wits closes until Monday while negotiations get underway
The University of the Witwatersrand has suspended its “academic programme with a common objective to resume it in full on Monday”.Wits said it made “this concession because we do not want the scenes that played out on our University campuses” on Tuesday‚ when students and police engaged in running battles‚ “to be repeated”.“If a negotiated outcome can achieve this end‚ then we will be all the stronger as a university community. The students have committed to saving the 2016 academic year‚” the university’s Shirona Patel said.Violence intensified at the university after advocate Dali Mpofu addressed students on Tuesday and called on former student leaders to join the protests taking place at the campus.Mpofu later told Radio 702 (www.702.co.za): “The key issue is that we must all try and save the academic year and on that we are all 100% agreed.”Mpofu was speaking ahead of a meeting with Wits vice-chancellor Professor Adam Habib‚ who told 702 that he welcomed the “window of opportuni...
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