Academic programme fully resumes at DUT
Teaching and learning has resumed in earnest at the Durban University of Technology after a two-month long staff strike came to an end.
Striking staff affiliated to three unions held out for weeks for better pay.
They've now agreed on a 7% basic salary increase as well as a monthly housing allowance of R200.
At the beginning of the strike - workers wanted a 10% hike - but it was later revised to 8.5%.
DUT was initially offering 6.-5%.
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The university's Alan Khan says things are back to normal now.
"Now that the staff strike is a thing of the past - we are in our classrooms, libraries are opened, computer labs are functional, and our objective now is to ensure that students get maximum benefit for the remaining time in the first term and then ensure that a 2018 academic calendar is honoured," Khan said.
Khan says that students have been given revised timetables which will extend the length of their first semester.
"We've lost quite a few weeks of the academic calendar - so different departments in different faculties are having make up for lost time. Everything is in the build-up towards making sure that exams can start on time," Khan said.