Maties building set alight

A case of “arson and damage to property” has been opened with police after a building was set alight at Stellenbosch University.

Cape Town - A case of “arson and damage to property” has been opened with police after a building was set alight at Stellenbosch University on Thursday night.

The university said on its website on Friday morning that a case of arson and damage to property was opened at the SAPS following a fire that was started in an office in the basement of the Administration Building B at Stellenbosch University at about 10pm.

“The fire alarm was activated and security staff together with emergency services who arrived on the scene, managed to extinguish the fire. The office was gutted, but no one was hurt in the incident,” the statement said.

A car belonging to a student that was parked in front of the building was also set alight but security staff and others managed to put out the fire, it said.

Classes have not been cancelled but security has been increased at the administration buildings.

“Unconfirmed reports are that the perpetrators are former workers of companies contracted to the university that protested on campus yesterday (on Thursday),” the university said on Friday.

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