Security removes EFF from Tuks campus
EFF student leaders disrupt an AfriForum Youth bursary campaign on Wednesday, resulting in security removing them from the campus.
Security had to remove Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) student leaders from the campus of the University of Pretoria after they disrupted an AfriForum Youth bursary campaign on Wednesday night.
Campus security stepped in when EFF students allegedly acted aggressively and made racist comments while distributing pamphlets in support of their #AfrikaansMustFall campaign.
AfriForum Youth was painting murals around the campus in support of its bursary competition launched last year, which could result in four Afrikaans-medium students winning R20 000 a bursary each.
According to Jaco Grobbelaar, AfriForum campus coordinator at Tuks, the EFF students only showed up at the campus on Wednesday evening, to stir up trouble.
“The EFF was on campus distributing pamphlets which did not have a stamp of approval by the university and therefore its action was not allowed according to campus rules.
“AfriForum’s Tukkies Youth itself had been in hot water in the past for distributing posters and placards without the required permission and as a result, had lost its office space on campus,” Grobbelaar said in a statement.
He said Afriforum had issued a written request to the university’s director of student affairs, Willem Jorrisen, in which it was asked that action be taken against the EFF, and therefore be treated similarly to AfriForum on the illegal distribution of pamphlets.
The EFF could not immediately be reached for comment.
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