One of two things happened at Wits on Friday. Either: A much anticipated university General Assembly, which many hoped would resolve the university’s ruinous confrontation over university fees, was waylaid in the wee hours by new and impossible-to-meet demands issued by Fees Must Fall (FMF) militants. Recognising the absence of the consensus that they hoped to see affirmed before the world in a marquee on the Library Lawn, university negotiators decided to postpone the event. A semi-circle of exhausted university higher-ups, led by Vice Chancellor Adam Habib, announced the postponement at a 9am press conference Or: University management decided, without warning and following little by way of preparatory consultation with students for the event, to pull out of the university assembly it had agreed to a few days earlier. Left high and dry by another episode of the vice-chancellor’s preference for communicating via the media rather than directly with his own students, the FMF people, t...
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