Students at the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus claimed yesterday that they were being followed by plainclothes police as the academic year resumed amid tight security. Karabo Sekhukhuni, a sports sciences student and joint chairman of the rising UP campus movement, said several students had complained about "strange men" following them around the campus."The strong presence of police officers in and around campus is intimidating enough. To be followed around by strangers is frightening," she said.Law student Maisha Magomarela, 24, said he noticed that he was being followed as soon as he approached the campus .When he arrived at the Prospect Street entrance he was shown his name and picture on a list of students barred from entering the campus.Magomarela said "two strangers" followed him to the entrance and when he asked why they were tailing him "they said: 'We are police doing our job'."He and five other EFF-linked students are facing a university investigation for allegedly instigating violence and defying a court order barring them from coming within 150m of the campus. They have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation."We are treated like thugs and suspended from the university, but members of AfriForum Youth, who attacked us on campus, are not suspended and are left to walk freely while we are being followed," he said.Brooklyn police spokes-man Captain Colette Weilbach rejected claims that there were plainclothes police on campus.Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande and Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko said that the destruction of property on campuses must end.They said that they wanted conflict at institutions of higher learning to be resolved peacefully without the intervention of law enforcement agencies.But law enforcement agencies would intervene "firmly" to stop criminality."This is necessary to ensure the rule of law and to end all criminal acts and the destruction of national assets, which are crucial to the empowerment of individuals, students, families and communities through teaching, learning and research," Nzimande said...