Students sitting outside the campus due to the ongoing strike
The Mopani FET Phalaborwa Campus Student Representative Council (SRC) decided to shut down all registration process due to the proposed decrease in student enrolment, denial of enrollment of students owing the institution and the lack of lecturers within the campus.
Mopani FET students waiting anxiously for their demands to be met.
Mopani FET students waiting anxiously for their demands to be met.
Mopani FET students waiting anxiously for their demands to be met.
Mopani FET students waiting anxiously for their demands to be met.
Mopani FET students waiting anxiously for their demands to be met.
Mopani FET students sitting outside as they anxiously wait for their demands to be met.
“We give the institution five working days to refund the learners who are entitled to NSFAS funds, which have miraculously disappeared”, stated SRC deputy chairperson, Montee Mabolabola. “We plead with the community of the BA-Phalaborwa municipality to support us in this struggle that we are in until our demands are met.”
Read the full article in the next week’s edition of the Phalaborwa Herald.
Bertus de Bruyn is based in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. De Bruyn has been employed by Caxton since 2009. After a short sabbatical of two years, De Bruyn is back at the place he called home, Caxton, at Lowveld Media. He is currently the digital content manager, but has 14 years of journalism skills, news editor, and acting editor duties behind his name.