Classes, exams suspended at Mangosuthu University of Technology as students allegedly torch property

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Classes and exams have been suspended at Mangosuthu University of Technology in Durban after a violent student protest on Thursday.

A vehicle and a guardhouse were set alight in the early hours of the morning at Mangosuthi University of Technology in Umlazi.Classes and exams have been suspended at Mangosuthu University of Technology in Durban after a violent student protest on Thursday.

“It is with sadness and shock that the university has woken up to malicious damage on campus,” the institution said. Calm has since been restored as the university “beefed up” security. It said it would apply disciplinary procedures accordingly.Once identified, these students will be summarily suspended and this will be followed by their expulsion. Such students do not deserve to be part of the MUT community as their presence is detrimental to law and order in the institution.

The university said they had caught the disruption on camera and would start identifying the culprits.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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