Wits University talks deadlock

JOHANNESBURG - Wits SRC has met with fellow students to provide feedback following meetings with the university's management.

But as soon as SRC president, Aphiwe Mnyamana, started addressing the gathering, it became clear that the talks with management had not not yielded any results. 

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He said, "we said to them all students and members of the SRC who are suspended, those suspensions must be lifted."

"We said to the senior executive team, no student who is participating in this protest must be suspended because we are exercising our right, we said to them, if NSFAS is paying R45000, no student must be asked to top up, we said to Wits management, scrap the top up even in external accommodation, there must be no top-up."

"We said to Wits, in our internal accommodation, if accommodation is R80,000 and you're a student who is funded by NSFAS, that R80,000 must be paid, us as students were not paying anything more. Amandla!"