Students hold UWC staffer hostage

[schumi]

Cape Town - Students held a University of the Western Cape staffer hostage on Tuesday as a negotiating tool during protests at its Bellville campus, the institution said.

“It is not acceptable that in a university setting students would hold a staff member against his will and use that as a condition for engagement,” it said in a letter to the “university community”.

The students said they would release him on condition a university mass meeting was held on Monday. And, that a meeting between the vice chancellor and students scheduled for 16:00 on Tuesday, include a larger group of protesting students.

Further details of how the staffer was freed were not immediately available. The university said late on Tuesday it would investigate the incident and take steps where necessary.

It deplored the incident in the light of ongoing talks to resolve students' issues.

The campus is across the road from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, which has been part of the Fees Must Fall protests countrywide.

A minibus was torched at the CPUT Cape Town campus on Tuesday.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/students-hold-uwc-staffer-hostage-20161012

 

[porchrat]

#peacefulprotests

 

[ToxicBunny]

Should be very simple response to this...

Surround the building where the students are holding the staff member hostage. Initiate hostage negotiations. Once the hostage is released, arrest every single student coming out for kidnapping.

 

[DanDango]

:wtf:

 

[flippakitten]

We should try and convince the students to take NPA boss, or the Gupta's hostage... Kill two birds with one stone, as they say.

 

[schumi]

Should be very simple response to this...

Surround the building where the students are holding the staff member hostage. Initiate hostage negotiations. Once the hostage is released, arrest every single student coming out for kidnapping.

And then void any agreements since they were made under duress

 

[LazyLion]

Should be very simple response to this...

Surround the building where the students are holding the staff member hostage. Initiate hostage negotiations. Once the hostage is released, arrest every single student coming out for kidnapping.

#TISA #WhitePrivilege #Decolonise #FeesMustFall #Can'tDoNoWrong

 

[ToxicBunny]

And then void any agreements since they were made under duress

I would suggest no agreements get made, merely statement of facts that all people involved in the kidnapping of the staff member will be criminally prosecuted and excluded from the University forthwith.

 

[IziWhatNow]

Sammy what do you say to these poor students. Shane no one taught them better

 

[ToxicBunny]

Sammy what do you say to these poor students. Shane no one taught them better

Its not Wits, Sammy has no opinion on anything outside of Wits.... and they're not students, they can't be.