UCT assisting students to return home ahead of national lockdown

The University of Cape Town is assisting students to return home ahead of the nationwide lockdown, which begins Thursday at midnight.

Now UCT is assisting remaining students by, for example, organising buses to transport them. UCT will also be completely shutting down its academic programme, and not even research will take place. These buses will head to the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the university said. During this period, no staff member will be allowed into any UCT building and academic activities – including research – will stop.

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