UCT has applied for an interdict against 16 protesters, including the son of Eskom boss Brian Molefe.
|||Cape Town – The University of Cape Town (UCT) on Wednesday applied for an interim interdict against protesting students and members of the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement.
The university posted the application on its social media pages with a link to the legal document.
In it, 16 respondents are named, many of whom are prominent members of the RMF.
Named in the application are Sanchia Davids, Kirsten Whitfield, Mogezi Mayepi, Neo Reiloe Mancapa, De Waal Hugo, Itumeleng Nkululeko Molefe - son of Eskom’s Brian Molefe - Dumisani Ncubani, Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania member Athabile Nonxuba, former UCT teaching assistant Alex Hotz, gender activist Pam Dhlamini, Masixole Mlandu, Slovo Magida, Zola Shokane, Brian Kamanzi, Ru Slayen, and Chumani Maxwele.
Maxwele is regarded as having sparked the RMF movement when he allegedly threw urine at the now removed statue of Cecil John Rhodes.
The application also reads, as a seventeenth respondent “[those] persons who associate themselves with any unlawful conduct at any of the university’s premises”.
According to the application, the 16 named respondents would be interdicted and restrained “from entering, or remaining on, any of the applicant’s premises until 14h00 on Friday 26 February 2016”. The university would, however, allow respondents to enter their premises should they have the formal consent to reside in a UCT residence.
The application also calls for the interdicting and restraining of all respondents from “any action that obstructs or frustrates the effective rendering of university services or decision-making processes of [UCT]”. This includes entering or occupying any UCT premises, erecting any unauthorised structures, destroying or defacing any of UCT’s property, or inciting violence.
African News Agency
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