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Police investigating a case of arson at Sol Plaatje University─── MARK STEENBOK 15:41 Thu, 27 Oct 2016
Kimberley - The police in Kimberley are investigating a case of arson at the Sol Plaatje University after a fire caused extensive damage to a storeroom at the university earlier this week.
The Vice Chancellor, Yunus Ballim, says somebody threw a bottle, believed to be a petrol bomb, through a window of the Luka Jantjie House on Tuesday evening. He adds the store room was well shielded and the fire was not able to spread. He says the fire burned out by itself and nobody was injured. There was, however, serious damage done to the room, furniture and the walls need to be repainted. Ballim says there is a strong sense that the incident is related to the protests over fees. "I think it is strongly related, because it comes at a time when a number of fires were started around the country at universities. However, I don't think that it is necessarily our students because we are aware also that there have been outsiders [involved at protests]. We have just issued a revised timetable to allow us to complete all exams and supplementary exams, and to provide students with their results on the 15th of December," Ballim adds. OFM News |
