ABM students seek reinstatement

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FRANCISTOWN: Four members of ABM College University Student Representative Council (SRC) who were expelled and suspended respectively made an urgent application to set aside the decision before Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo on Monday.

Last year, ABM expelled Onkgopotse Mogende (SRC president) and suspended Tshepho Majae (Minister of Publicity), Pearl Ojahilwe (Student Affairs Minister) and Oratile Gaopotlake (Secretary General) for allegedly inciting other students to protest after they doubted the credibility of some of the courses offered by the institution.

At the High Court on Monday, the students also sought an order against the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) who are second respondents in the matter, to reinstate their subsistence allowances which have been terminated since December last year.

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