Bame Piet
3 October 2008
Principal Public Relations Officer in the Ministry of Education, Nomsa Suze, says Batswana students studying at the University of Northwest in Mafikeng will go back to class on Monday.
Students at the university went on strike last week, burning down buildings in protest against the dismissal of their colleagues from the institution. They were also calling for the dismissal of the university vice-chancellor, charging him with maladministration.
Seventy-five Batswana students are studying at the university and five of them were staying on campus. She said 49 of the students are on pre-service sponsorship whilst 26 others are on in-service sponsorship.
She said the strike was getting out of hand and advised the students to move off campus as the authorities monitor the situation.
She said they are informed that the situation has improved and that students return to class next Monday. "We are told that everything is fine now," she said.
Suze revealed that though her office has not received any reports of injured students, there was an incident in which a Motswana student on self-sponsorship was arrested after being mistaken for a hooligan.
He was celebrating the outcome of a football match when security guards nabbed him. He was released the same day, she said.
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