Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa has outlined nine measures it plans to implement following the massive protest by its students over a planned fee hike for year 2016.
The protests that begun in the University but quickly spread out throughout the country have been billed as the biggest student protests in South Africa since the end of the infamous apartheid in 1994.
Wits University announced the measures in a series of tweets, urging the students to accept them so that classes can resume as early as Tuesday morning. Here are the tweets;
1/9 @WitsUniversity will not increase fees for 2016
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
2/9 @WitsUniversity prepared to address increase in upfront fee payment
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
3/9 @WitsUniversity will restructure academic programme/exam timetable affected by protest
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
4/9 Wits commits: Establish internal commission to investigate effect of outsourcing/cost of insourcing/alternative models
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
5/9 @WitsUniversity will find financial resources to support children of currently employed outsourced workers who qualify for admission
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
6/9 @WitsUniversity will not take disciplinary process against students involved in legitimate forms of protest
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
7/9 @WitsUniversity will draw up a worker’s charter
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
8/9 @WitsUniversity will make effort to resolve outstanding issues raised by students in good faith
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
9/9 Should students agree to these measures, @WitsUniversity will call a General Assembly
— Wits_News (@Wits_News) October 26, 2015
