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Emergency council meeting as UCT crisis deepens

THE deepening crisis at troubled UCT took a new twist after it emerged on Friday that a student in the faculty of health sciences, allegedly committed suicide – and will be one of a growing number of issues on the agenda during an emergency meeting of council to take place on Tuesday.

Grieving colleagues of the student from the Eastern Cape claim they were forced to write assessments on the day of his death without support from the university last month.

In a week of high-drama at UCT over

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