This has been met with resistance from the student leadership, who claim accommodation provided was in need of repair, while ...

Students have been sleeping outside and in hallways. Hundreds of bags and suitcases line the gates outside CPUT’s Cape Town campus as students still waiting for accommodation protested amid the ...

After Tuesday's oversight visit to the District Six campus by the Higher Education Department, students who were still ...

This comes after groups of students gathered at the institution’s District Six campus recently requesting accommodation.

Cape Town - Just hours after CPUT’s Residence, Financial Aid, and security personnel secured accommodation for 410 students, chaos erupted as students clashed with security guards. A fire was ...

Dozens of CPUT students are protesting over pending accommodation applications, with many having applied months ago but still lacking placements. The university has a bed capacity of 16,200 and ...

Dozens of students at CPUT’s District Six campus are stranded without accommodation, despite applying before the deadline, leading to protests and clashes with police on 10 February. Many first-year ...

In February students at CPUT started fires and clashed with campus security over the lack of accommodation. The university had attempted to place students who had been squatting outside the campus ...

CPUT students protested on Thursday to highlight the ongoing accommodation crisis at the institution. Many have no choice but to sleep in a student centre, disability hall, or outdoors.

Student Representative Council (SRC) member at the institution Ayabulela Mbiza said they are hopeless as they patiently wait to be accommodated.

“CPUT was able to meet the demand for accommodation through a number of ways including by moving students into post-graduate residences, expediting the maintenance projects of our own university ...