This was one of the demands listed in a memorandum which was handed to the acting Vice Chancellor, Nicky Morgan, at the Bloemfontein campus' main building today. 

The students further demand that the management resists increasing security and police visibility on campus. They expect management to give feedback to them at 14:00 tomorrow. 

Meanwhile, the SRC president at the Central University of Technology (CUT) in Bloemfontein, Thapelo Ngozo, says they will not vacate residences after all academic and administrative activities were suspended due to safety reasons until October 10. Students were also asked to vacate residences by 12:00 tomorrow.

Police and security were still monitoring a small group of singing students earlier this afternoon.

“You cannot expect students funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to have R2000 ready within two hours to go home. We are going to talk to residences, and those students who submitted their names to stay at the residences during the holidays will stay, nobody will remove them, we are not prepared to leave. Even if they shoot us, they must shoot us,” says Thapelo.

Mark Steenbok and Moeketsi Mogotsi/OFM News