‘Cops terrorising union members at Fort Hare’

Yesterday, during a media briefing in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, officials from the Federation Union of SA and the National Tertiary Education Union said an academic staff member was kidnapped and assaulted at his home on April 23 by 12 heavily armed people. The incident happened in East London, Eastern Cape.

Abbott said their private investigation led to the discovery of other victims who had also been kidnapped and tortured by the same group. In January this year, Buhlungu’s bodyguard Mboneli Vesele was killed in what was thought to be an attempt on the vice-chancellor’s life; while guns were fired on the pair just outside Buhlungu’s house at the Alice staff campus. Last year, the university’s fleet manager, Petrus Roets, was shot and killed in his car at the Gonubie off-ramp outside East London.

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