in 2012, who died in a stampede outside of the University of Johannesburg, where she had accompanied her son to apply for a space to study.afternoon, DUT announced that it had closed all of its five campuses after a large group of prospective students “invaded the Sports Centre on the Steve Biko campus”.
“Overnight, a significant number of people continued to occupy the Sports Centre and refused the request to leave campus. Over the course of this morning, the situation escalated with protesters milling around outside the Steve Biko campus, hurling stones at buildings, damaging university property, barricading public roads, including several attempts to invade more buildings on campus,” the DUT’s media officer, Simangele Zuma, said in a statement.
reported that some of the people gathered at the sports centre were not wearing masks nor social distancing and there were fears that their gathering was a potential Covid-19 super spreader., an agency of the department of higher education, science and innovation to safeguard student health and wellbeing, has warned of a third wave as a result of student cluster Covid-19 outbreaks.
The chief executive of Higher Health, Professor Ramneek Ahluwalia, last week said the current outbreaks across some universities were worrying. Ahluwalia said Higher Health had been working with higher education and training institutions, the department of health, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the National Health Laboratory Service to establish cluster outbreak investigation teams. In the past fortnight, more than 3 000 students and staff had been screened and contact traced, and more than 300 people tested.