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LIMKOKWING RE-OPENS, WI-FI ISSUE RESOLVED

By Sabelo Majola | 2018-03-22

THE Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) will resume classes today after it was closed over a week ago due to a class boycott that turned ugly, resulting in police being called to disperse violent students.

The school’s management and students representative council (SRC) met for the first time since the class boycott that occurred on March 14, where students aggressively protested on the streets of Sidwashini because of dysfunctional Wi-Fi that was making it difficult for them to do their assignments.

Police had to be called to calm the situation and rubber bullets were fired to disperse the rowdy students.

A memo was released yesterday alerting the students to report back to school today. “Following the closure of the university on March 14th 2018, students are advised that management and the SRC have met and the following decisions were reached; the issue of Wi-Fi has been resolved and the University will re-open on Thursday (today),” reads part of the memo.

The memo advised students that today and tomorrow will be dedicated to consultations with lecturers, research and submission of assignments for those students who have their work ready for submission. Normal classes will resume on Monday. Furthermore, the academic calendar will be resuming on Week six next week. The memo also clarifies that all outstanding lectures for week five will be covered in the course of the semester and further clarification on academic matters will be communicated to the students through the relevant faculty structures. SRC President Benele Simelane said they were assured that the Wi-Fi was sorted and it was running well at the time they met with the school management.

However, the SRC didn’t approve of the signing of the affidavit that serves as a ticket to gain entry into the school, which forbids them from engaging in aggression of any fashion.

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