KZN students sleep rough amid housing and registration challenges

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About 250 first-year students from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Pietermaritzburg campus spent two nights on the tarmac outside the security gates after claiming that the university had failed to provide them with accommodation.

Bachelor of science student Ayanda Mqadi from Umlazi said her foray into tertiary education could best be described as “turmoil”.

He said student accommodation had always posed a big challenge for the university, which has five campuses across the province. He added that the university cited a lack of finances for not being able to create more accommodation. He said it was not always conducive for some students to study and live off campus with large families.

About a dozen students camped outside, accompanied by EFF student council members over complaints related to the institution’s higher certificate, an exit-level qualification that allows students with a grade 12 certificate endorsement to be permitted admission into a first-level university qualification upon completion.

 

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Pity when i take a gud look most of this students r blk kids🤔🤔😢 kunzima ngempela, blk man u r own. Isono sethu ubumnyama...😏🙄

myNSFAS DrBladeNzimande SascoNational your legacy

This happens every year at this university. Surely either the university administration doesn’t wanna learn or these kids just show up at campus expecting to be provided with accommodation without prior application

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