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SowetanLive reports that the University of Fort Hare (UFH) has offered counselling to its distraught security staff members who are struggling to deal with the loss of yet another of their colleagues at the weekend.
A 33-year-old bodyguard in the security department died in a suspicious car crash on Sunday when a bakkie drove into his vehicle along Cambridge Road in King William’s Town, leading to his instant death. According to UFH spokesperson JP Roodt, a meeting was held with security staff to reassure them and offered them psychosocial support. “We understand their jobs are not easy and they are putting their lives on the line and so the meeting was for us to show them that we acknowledge and understand that they are working under abnormal situation and circumstance. The mood was sombre. They are very committed to our renewal programme of rooting out corruption and restoring the dignity of this university, which vice-chancellor Prof Sakhela Buhlungu started when he joined the university,” said Roodt. In January this year, one of Buhlungu’s bodyguards was killed in what was seen as an attempt on the VC’s life. Last year in May, UFH’s fleet manager Petrus Roets was shot and killed in his car at an off-ramp outside East London. It is believed that the latest employee to be killed would have been a key witness in both those cases following the arrest of five people for the murders and the attempted murder of Buhlungu.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Sibiya at SowetanLive
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