MUT suspends 22 protesting students
The Mangosuthu University of Technology has suspended 22 students who have been positively linked to the violent protests that erupted at its Umlazi main campus last week.
About 30 students pelted security with stones and torched a building and two vehicles.
During their investigations with the police, the varsity found that students from sister campuses in KZN were also hired to join the protests.
The Mangosuthu university of Technology has opened a case of respassing, arson, and damage to university property at the Umlazi police station.
The institution confirmed in a media statement on Sunday that the 22 MUT students have been identified and positively linked with the planning and execution of Thursday's destruction of university property.
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Four are current SRC members and another one is a former SRC president.
A former MUT student currently on suspension for taking part in a violent protest last year, was also identified as the mastermind and a criminal charge will be preferred against him.
Two hired students from the University of Zululand, one from UKZN and another student from UNISA were arrested on Thursday for the destruction of MUT property.
According to the university's investigation, the group orchestrated the protest as part of a bigger plan to capture and control SRC's in TVET and universities in KZN for a particular student organisation.
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