WITS: Majority of students are in lectures
Wits University believes not everyone protesting on it's premises in Johannesburg, are registered students.
The University's Student Representative Council (SRC) called on the students to go on a hunger strike from Tuesday morning.
A small group of students started a peaceful protest on Monday by sitting in the middle of the administration area of Solomon Mahlangu House.
They are demanding that all students with historic debt be registered and that students be given accommodation.
University management says it cannot meet the demands, due to financial constraints.
Wits spokesperson Shirona Pattel says a walkabout on campus revealed that the majority of students are attending lectures.
"We've determined that out of the group who gathered in the com court, that not all of them are university students and we are in the process of trying to ask those who are not students to please leave the campus.
The university has 37 500 students, the majority of them are in class attending lectures, but we do have this group of 50 who want to raise the issues around accommodation and historic debt." Shirona says.
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Student Representative Council (SRC) member Ashley Mabasa says Wits university is trying to intimidate the students by hiring private security.
"You need to take into consideration the costs of those security guards, it would have been better to take that money and pay some of the student's fees
"The other thing is why has the management not come to engage the students instead of unleashing the private security that's costly to the university," said Mabasa.