Learning and teaching have been disrupted at the University of Fort Hare’s at East London and Dikeni campuses since Wednesday. On Thursday, students demonstrated on both campuses and vowed not to back off until their issues were resolved.
Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku is going ahead with her court case against the University of Fort Hare despite the university clearing her to graduate.Faku scored a major victory on Monday when the university’s lawyers wrote to her apologising and assuring her that she would finally be awarded her law degree this year.
A few days after the province celebrated its record-breaking matric pass rate of 81.4%, the matric class of 2023 face a new obstacle. The province’s universities cannot accommodate the majority who have passed. They have already received more than half a million applications but can only accommodate 20,077 new students in 2024.
Since 2018, the University of Fort Hare has offered a speech and language therapy (SLT) degree but it has left students unable to graduate, since the regulatory body is not satisfied with the degree’s credibility.