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 Sthembiso Shandu has said Tshwane University of Technology’s management wrong for halting classes and vacating students from residences. On Monday, 7 March university management issued a notice to students that classes on the Shoshanguve campus were off until 6 April 2016. The document also recommended students leave their residences by 14:00 on Tuesday, 8 March 2016 for their own safety. Shandu who is the Deputy Head on the Student Representative Council (SRC), told News24’s Karabo Ngoepe the university was “stupid” to shut down the campus. He said, “So this decision is wrong. It must be reviewed today or tomorrow. It must be reviewed.” He also remarked the tertiary institution was not the Vice Chancellor’s “tuckshop” but a national asset. News24 reporter Ngoepe noticed students leaving the South Campus, wheeling bags of luggage and even a small bar fridge from the morning of Tuesday, 8 March 2016. Taxis standing outside the gate were headed for Tshwane central, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Easter Cape. “We want lectures to be here,” he said. “We are not going to agree to a sense of saying that classes shall close simply because a white man is failing to meet us, is failing to sit in a table with us.” Ngoepe also reported fences on campus were broken on the South Campus in Shoshanguve. Watch the clip above.