Words: Liezl Human / GroundUp
Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) returned to lectures on campus on Monday after several days of protests over student debt. This comes as an agreement between the UCT council and Student Representative Council (SRC) was reached on Thursday, 20 February.
The first week of lectures had been disrupted by hundreds of students blocking entry and marching on campus. This forced some lectures to move online.
SRC members demanded that management give concessions to financially excluded students who were academically eligible to register but unable to settle their outstanding debt.
In a statement on 21 February, Norman Arendse, chair of the UCT council, said that the university’s historic…
