According to the SRC secretary general, Molekane Mojaki, the 57 students are those who will be starting their second, third and fourth years after staying on campus since they started their tertiary education. He revealed that the students had been scared to sleep in the conference hall in case they were ejected by security personnel; "so they used to hide in the toilets and bathrooms for the night. They only started sleeping here with no mattresses or blankets in the past three days," he said as he showed Monitor a group of students who were sitting on chairs in the air-conditioned hall.
"We don't know how we are supposed to start classes if we have no place to sleep. We don't even know where we are going to sleep on Monday when the workers report for work. They are probably going to lock the hall and we don't know where we shall go after that," one student who stated that she was an orphan said. She said she has been surviving on aid from her unemployed aunt in Selebi-Phikwe.
