News24 | WATCH | Homeless Stellenbosch students sleep on squash court, admin steps amid accommodation crisis

Students from Stellenbosch University slept outside the admin building along with their luggage.

Justine Mnisi left his home in a village in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga, bound for Stellenbosch University with dreams of studying environmental management and supporting his family.

But the 20-year-old student, the first in his family to go to university, has spent the past two weeks since the university opened, sleeping in the SRC offices, on a squash court, on the steps of the administration building, and now in a church hall.

This is because of a dire shortage of student accommodation at Stellenbosch University, caused partly by the fact that the "2024 uptake for the academic year was exceptionally high," said university spokesperson Martin Viljoen. 

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