Court installs SRC leaders back in class :: Mmegi Online

The High Court was the scene of singing and cavorting yesterday after the University of Botswana's Student Representative Council (SRC) won the first round of a marathon battle with the university management.

Justice Lot Moroka granted suspended SRC president Khumoekae Richard, vice-president Thumo Seleke, administrative-secretary Tshepiso Nolan Bodilenyane and minister of justice Kago Mokotedi their petition to return to class, prompting jubilation among a throng of the fellow students who made up the larger part of the audience. Moroka ordered UB administration to allow the suspended student leaders back to class while lawyers acting for the university Ð must expedite their papers to oppose the legal challenge the students have mounted against their suspension.

Before their first victory yesterday, the students' attorney Duma Boko had served Dineo Makati-Mpho of Collins Newman, for UB administration, with an urgent challenge to the students' suspension.

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