Students complained of “flies coming out of food” and “random little pieces of what seems like it could be rodents”.

UCT is now planning the return of the 4,000 ... it is safe for students to return,” said Shaer. Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall on the upper campus were damaged in the fire. A student from Smuts ...

UCT has 6 680 beds for 27 000 students ... which came to the decision to invade Fuller Hall’s dining room to find food. The students entered the hall from the kitchen after kicking the ...

On Thursday, UCT said students who reside in Smuts Hall and Fuller Hall began collecting their belongings before their move to temporary accommodation sites organised by the university.

UCT spokesperson Gerda Kruger said the university ... In the early evening the group entered Smuts Hall, Fuller Hall and Jameson Hall, removing artwork from the walls and burning it.” ...

Fuller Hall residence is named after Mrs Barnard Fuller, who was the first female student at UCT. AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports a day from more than 110 news organizations and over 500 ...

UCT's two-day summer graduation season kicked ... got up to "fun-filled antics" as student residents in the then Fuller Hall. "We climbed out of windows well after curfew ...

As lectures resume and the clean-up operation gets underway, a video is doing the rounds of how young student marshals at the Fuller Hall and Smuts Hall residences braved the blaze to save the ...

UCT SRC member Gisella Shaer said some of the students would move back into residences on Thursday. "But also it all depends on fire marshals… and that it is safe for students to return," said Shaer.