Attorney threatens legal action to get universities reopened

Prominent attorney Comfort Ngidi is threatening legal action against three top universities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal if lectures do not resume soon under alert level three, writes Nokuthula Khanyile for The Witness.

Ngidi, the father of four students, who attend the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban University of Technology and Mangosuthu University of Technology, said he will be left with no other option but to go to court if lectures for senior and postgraduate students do not resume. In a letter sent to the institutions by Ngidi and Company Incorporated, the universities were given five days to call a parents’ meeting to deliberate on the grounds for the continued closures. Alternatively, Ngidi said they had to provide a detailed plan of their opening programmes.

Ngidi is a well-known attorney who was a candidate for the state capture commission of inquiry’s legal and investigative teams. He said he could not understand why the universities had been slow in formulating a plan for the staggered return of a maximum of 33% of the student population as announced by Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande.
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