AS the MDC Provincial Organising Secretary Rodgers was addresing scores of students at Fort Hare University on Friday, e-mails were dispatched from the Registra’s office to every student asking them to notify MDC aligned students to report to the Registra’s office for disciplinary action.
The entire MDC branch leadership of 12 students will be chucked out of college on Monday. About 600 other students who attended the rally are sure to face the chop. A massive demonstraton at the university is looming as MDC SA squares up with University over the continued intimidation of the students.
The ANC Youth League and Congress of South African Students (COSAS) have thrown their weight behind the demonstration. We are also giving Dr. Tom Mvuyo, up to Tuesday afternoon to rescind the decision to chop students.
We appeal to him to immediately release the students’ meal cards since payment was made already. The money was paid and there is no justification in starving students.
Students’s meal cards were deactivated, literally sentencing them to a ‘scotched earth policy’. This is unaccaptable in any modern period. The Presidential Scholarship is bankrolled by the tax-payer’s money and students can’t be treated like rubbish by ambitious individuals who regard Zimbabwe as their family treasury.
MDC SA Publicity & Information Secretary
Sibanengi Dube
