Staff Reporter.
The South African Union of Students is briefing the media on the outcome of urgent SRC meetings.
South African Union of Students (SAUS) announced on Sunday that all of the country’s 26 universities are in support of a national shutdown beginning on Monday.
This after the SAUS met Deputy Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela in Pretoria on Saturday to discuss a memorandum of demands.
Students want all historical debt to be abandoned among other issues.
The union’s deputy secretary general Sibusiso Thwala said following Saturday’s failed meeting with deputy minister Buti Manamela they have resolved to force government to listen to them.
“The responses of the minister of higher education as outlined by the deputy minister yesterday, are responses we see as lack of commitment by the ministry to urgently resolve the needs of students.”
This comes after days of protests at campuses around the country.
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