Students at the Cedara College of Agriculture outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal say the living conditions they are subjected to at the campus are ‘inhumane’ and ‘unbearable’.
Cedara, an agricultural college and research station near Howick, offers a two-year higher certificate in agriculture and a three-year diploma in agriculture, and students can specialise in either animal production or crop cultivation.
It provides vocational training in dairying