Students at the North-West University's Mahikeng campus have been asked to vacate the premises by 15:00 on Tuesday after the institution closed the campus. This follows incidents of violence at the university on Monday, with the South African Union of Students (SAUS) calling for campuses across the country to be shut down. On Monday evening, senior students allegedly assaulted other students and damaged university property. "The safety of students and staff on campus is increasingly in jeopardy," said Louis Jacobs, director of corporate communications at the NWU. The shutdown call follows a purported breakdown in talks between the department, the SAUS, student representative council presidents and secretaries general of South African public universities.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 28, 2020 07:52 UTC