Fort Hare students torch building

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Johannesburg - Protesting students torched a building at the University of Fort Hare's Alice campus in the early hours of Thursday, Vice Chancellor Mvuyo Tom told News24.

"At around 01:00 this morning, a small group of students burned down the Equicent Infrastructure Development building. They broke windows and doors and blocked the university's entrance gates."

Tom said he was shocked by the destruction, after the Student Representative Council had agreed to resume classes.

"We had a series of meetings, both a mass meeting, and with the SRC. The students were demanding that security should be beefed up at all students' residences. We resolved this and student leaders said they were satisfied. They told us that they would inform students to go back to class today."

Tom said most students had agreed to go back to class, but a small group had vandalised university property.

"We don't know what they want anymore because we have met all of their demands. We have 24-hour security at each residence as per their demands. They have been disciplined until this morning."

Tom said students were holding meetings on the East London campus. Students in East London wanted free education and shuttles to take them from their residences to campus.

Protests erupted at universities across the country after Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced on Monday that universities could increase fees for 2017 by up to 8%.

News24
: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/fort-hare-students-torch-building-20160922
 
Because that's the way to keep fees down - cause massive amounts of property damage!
 
There is no satisfying someone who just wants to cause destruction and mayhem. You can give him a billion dollars and a mansion and he will start a murderous drug cartel with all the money. Some okes are just born bad.
 
Missionary activity under James Stewart led to the creation of a school for missionaries from which at the beginning of the 20th century the university resulted. In accord with its Christian principles, fees were low and heavily subsidised. Several scholarships were also available for indigent students.

It was a key institution in higher education for black Africans from 1916 to 1959. It offered a Western-style academic education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa, creating a black African elite. Fort Hare alumni were part of many subsequent independence movements and governments of newly independent African countries.[1]


Liberation movement archives
Several leading opponents of the apartheid regime attended Fort Hare, among them Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo of the African National Congress, Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Robert Sobukwe of the Pan Africanist Congress, Desmond Tutu, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. Mandela who studied Latin and physics there for almost two years in the 1940s, left the institution as a result of a conflict with a college leader. He later wrote in his autobiography that “For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one.”
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Mandela attended this uni....
 
Funny thing is they are the only uni to have said they would not increase fees this year.
 
Hopefully they can find these fsckers and throw them into the worst part of Pollsmor for the rest of their miserable crappy lives.
 
"We don't know what they want anymore because we have met all of their demands. We have 24-hour security at each residence as per their demands. They have been disciplined until this morning."
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This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists. You are now proper fccked.
 
schumi said:
Johannesburg - Protesting students torched a building at the University of Fort Hare's Alice campus in the early hours of Thursday, Vice Chancellor Mvuyo Tom told News24.

"At around 01:00 this morning, a small group of students burned down the Equicent Infrastructure Development building. They broke windows and doors and blocked the university's entrance gates."

Tom said he was shocked by the destruction, after the Student Representative Council had agreed to resume classes.

"We had a series of meetings, both a mass meeting, and with the SRC. The students were demanding that security should be beefed up at all students' residences. We resolved this and student leaders said they were satisfied. They told us that they would inform students to go back to class today."

Tom said most students had agreed to go back to class, but a small group had vandalised university property.

"We don't know what they want anymore because we have met all of their demands. We have 24-hour security at each residence as per their demands. They have been disciplined until this morning."

Tom said students were holding meetings on the East London campus. Students in East London wanted free education and shuttles to take them from their residences to campus.

Protests erupted at universities across the country after Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced on Monday that universities could increase fees for 2017 by up to 8%.

News24
: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/fort-hare-students-torch-building-20160922
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I ain't clicking on this link - seen no such news on News24 the whole day ;)
 
Whites built it for blacks, Christian missionaries came to help educate black people.
So its got to go, burn it to the ground and be happy.
Study from home
 
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Lets add a few new buildings to the budget and see where we can save costs to reduce the fees.
 
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