{"id":9740,"date":"2013-08-28T09:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2013-08-28T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:08:45","slug":"unrest-closes-walter-sisulu-university-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9740","title":{"rendered":"Unrest closes Walter Sisulu University indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9741\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WalterSisuluUniversity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9741\" alt=\"Walter Sisulu University\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WalterSisuluUniversity-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WalterSisuluUniversity-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WalterSisuluUniversity.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Sisulu University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students have been told to vacate the Walter Sisulu University, in the Eastern Cape, because of labour trouble, administrator Lourens van Staden said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The volatile situation that is unfolding has made it impossible for management to risk or to guarantee the safety and well-being of our students and the communities in which they live,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We therefore regret to announce that all students are to vacate university premises, university residences and university rented accommodation with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the labour deadlock had dragged on for five weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The response to the offer made by management to staff last week has not been sufficiently conclusive to enable classes to resume,&#8221; Van Staden said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The university does not want to keep students waiting on campus indefinitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van Staden said management would continue seeking ways to resolve the dispute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The decision to send students home does not mean that the academic year is lost,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All efforts will be made to put alternative arrangements in place in order to complete this second semester.&#8221; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students have been told to vacate the Walter Sisulu University, in the Eastern Cape, because of labour trouble, administrator Lourens van Staden said on Tuesday. &#8220;The volatile situation that is unfolding has made it impossible for management to risk or to guarantee the safety and well-being of our students and the communities in which they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unrest closes Walter Sisulu University indefinitely&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[610,1120,140,5612],"class_list":["post-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-eastern-cape","tag-unrest","tag-violence","tag-walter-sisulu-university"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WalterSisuluUniversity.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}