Controversial student leader Mcebo Dlamini says Dali Mpofu will take the #feesmustfall fight to the Constitutional Court on behalf of the movement‚ but the prominent lawyer-politician says it’s the first he’s heard of it.
Dlamini‚ a former student representative council president at the University of the Witwatersrand‚ said on Radio 702 last night that a strong team of legal experts‚ which includes Advocates Dali Mpofu and Sandile Khumalo‚ had been assembled to help force government to implement free education in the country.
Speaking to #NightTalk's Gugs Mhlungu and Sizwe Dhlomo‚ Dlamini said that the #FeesMustFall student movement at Wits University plans to take the matter of free education to the Constitutional Court to test whether the country's Constitution favours the majority of South Africans.
“We don't want free education for Wits students only. We want free education in South Africa‚” he said.
On Tuesday morning‚ however‚ Mpofu took to Twitter to say he had not been approached.
"Nope" was his brief comment in response to a tweet.
To another‚ asking if he would join the fight for free education through the legal route‚ Mpofu replied: “If approached...there are rules...you don't just sommer ‘barge’ into a case!”
A group of students at Wits on Monday held a minute’s silence and bowed their heads in mourning after the university confirmed that one of its employees - a cleaner who worked in a residence - had died.
“Last Tuesday‚ students released a fire extinguisher in the Jubilee Hall of Residence‚ which affected a cleaner in the building‚” a statement from the university said. “The worker was rushed to the Campus Health and Wellness Centre and then taken to hospital where the worker was treated for a few days. The worker was discharged from hospital and then passed away‚” the university said.
The Wits SRC said afterwards that a delegation of students and academics would visit the family of the worker.
They committed themselves “to reflecting on protest methods used to ensure the safety of the university community”.
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