Wits SRC claims it has shut down the campus, but management determined to continue operations
The University of Witwatersrand's student representative council claims it has shut down the institution, but the university's management says activities will continue despite disruptions.
Earlier on Thursday morning, protesters used rocks to block the Yale Road entrance and threw rubbish across parts of the campus. They want the institution to adhere to their demands, which relate to accommodation, registration fees and financial exclusion.
Following disruptions of lectures and other operations on campus, students from the EFF Students Command, Sasco and a group of staff members gathered outside the Great Hall on campus.
SRC president Sisanda Aluta Mbolekwa told the crowd that the council would meet to engage further with management. The protesters said they would wait for management to address them instead of the SRC.
In a statement on its Twitter page, Wits said it was of the view that those who were shutting down operations were not serving the students' best interests.