Stellenbosch University Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching Professor Deresh Ramjugernath has declared exams will be postponed by a week.
As per new guidelines, students are now supposed to sit for their semester exams on May 30. Before that, they were supposed to sit for their exams on Monday.
The break will start on July 4. However, as per Ramjugernath, this will not impact the start of the second semester on July 18.
According to Ramjugernath, the University took into account the “mental health and emotional state of our students” after an alleged racist incident and rape on campus this week.
Stellenbosch University states that it has expedited the investigation into Theuns du Toit and the urination incident, but it must still obey proper processes.
Du Toit was suspended on Monday following a video taken by fellow student Babalo Ndwayana early Sunday morning at Huis Marais student residence.
According to Ndwayana, when he woke up, he felt someone was in his room and started filming Du Toit urinating at a corner desk where he kept study material.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila has confirmed that the Stellenbosch University student arrested on Thursday morning made a brief appearance in the Stellenbosch Magistrate’s Court.
He is charged with two counts of rape.
'We are not toilets' #StellenboschUniversity @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/2h9Nt5k1mz
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
Stellenbosch University theology student Ishmael Mabena expresses protesters' demand for immediatete expulsion of Theuns du Toit. Wants to know if uni they are checking DNA, doesn't accept delay. @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/CbJqk0FazV
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
Stellenbosch University theology student Ishmael Mabena expresses protesters' demand for immediatete expulsion of Theuns du Toit. Wants to know if uni they are checking DNA, doesn't accept delay. @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/CbJqk0FazV
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
The court is all set for his bail at R1 000 with conditions that he must not be in conduct with the complaint. His case was delayed until June 29 2022, for further investigation.
Stellenbosch University to set up external commission of inquiry to probe racism and university culture, plus set up reporting hotline. Asks for patience over disciplinary process of Theuns de Toit. Students not happy with the slow pace. @TeamNews24
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
Memo of 17 demands handed over to Stellenbosch University VC Wim de Villiers. @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/bPvGy626Ad
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
Stellenbosch student representative Queen Majikijela says the university produced architects of apartheid and the racist act of Theuns Du Toit urinating on Babalo Ndwayana' things is a microcosm of provocations by those who don't accept black political power in S @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/fk7aRneChu
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
The Student Representative Council of Stellenbosch University has issued a statement regarding an alleged rape at the university that has been arrested from his residence.
The statement also reads: The SRC is hated that our University is yet again faced with an incident of Gender-Based Violence.
Stellenbosch student representative Queen Majikijela says the university produced architects of apartheid and the racist act of Theuns Du Toit urinating on Babalo Ndwayana' things is a microcosm of provocations by those who don't accept black political power in S @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/fk7aRneChu
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
However, another scandal rocked Stellenbosch University after a first-year student was arrested in connection with the rape of a fellow student on Wednesday.
We're in Stellenbosch ahead of a protest by Sasco because a white student urinated on a black student's study materials. Theuns du Toit's disciplinary is expected on Friday and a criminal case was also opened. @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/MCMktd6UsL
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
Stellenbosch students protesting following Theuns du Toit urinating on Babalo Ndwayana's things in res. They want Du Toit expelled now. @TeamNews24 pic.twitter.com/bzPeRSTfAJ
— Jenni Evans (@itchybyte) May 19, 2022
According to ANCYL, black people are treated as pit toilets.
A memo calls for an inquiry into racism.
