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CPUT celebrates successful space launch of nanosatellites
The constellation of satellites will help improve South Africa’s maritime surveillance.
The R27-million project has been mandated by the Department of Science and Innovation to enhance South Africa’s oceanic sovereignty.
The project will see the satellites, weighing just over two kilograms each, launched into orbit from the Cape Canaveral facility in the US on Thursday.
The SRC on Tuesday said some students hadn’t been assisted since the start of the academic year.
Univeristiies across the province have chartered buses to ensure that students make their way home safely ahead of the lockdown.
Hundreds of students handed over a memorandum to the national legislature on Thursday.
They marched to the gates of Parliament after hundreds of students from across the Cape came together for a mass meeting at CPUT's District Six campus.
Demonstrations started two weeks ago and turned violent, with buildings and cars stoned.
Classes have been suspended for the rest of the week due to ongoing violent protests.
CPUT's Lauren Kansley explained the university was operating as usual yesterday but protests persisted.
Four students were arrested and charged with public violence and appeared in court earlier this week.
Over the past few days, students have been removed from their lecture rooms and the library by demonstrators who reportedly told them they won't allow classes to continue until their grievances are heard.
Over the past two days, students have been removed from their lecture rooms and from the library.
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology said that it did not issue a notice about 'musturbation'.
On Tuesday night, the woman was abducted outside Tygerberg Hospital and sexually assault.
Nearly 100 youths took a stand against this social ill at the university's District Six campus with placards on Thursday afternoon.
South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.
A group of protesting students from the Western Cape College of Nursing in Athlone has handed over a memorandum of demands to the CPUT vice-chancellor, Chris Nhlapo.
The car was designed as part of the Sasol Solar Car Challenge 2018 which sees teams from across the world design and build solar-powered vehicles to race from Pretoria to Cape Town.