'Fee-free policy will doom varsities'

It would cost universities between R400-million and R2-billion to in-source all services - and if the country were to adopt a fee-free tuition regime some universities would collapse in a few months. This is the warning of Universities South Africa's Ahmed Bawa.Bawa took over at the organisation, which represents universities, in May after being vice-chancellor of the Durban University of Technology for more than five years.