UCT crisis: Black academics and staff want Minister Blade Nzimande to intervene

As the crisis at the University of Cape Town (UCT) rages on, black staff and academics want higher education minister Blade Nzimande to set up an independent commission of inquiry. 

In a letter to the university last Thursday, seen by the Mail & Guardian but not yet made public, Dr Tiri Chinyoka, writing on behalf of black academics and staff, said Nzimande should intervene with an inquiry into what he called racist false claims about dysfunction at UCT.

Nzimande’s office could not be reached for comment at the time of writing.