JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande has said that the department will establish a national task force to concentrate on safety and security at institutions of higher learning across the country.
"We've agreed to focus on issues of safety and security in the entire sector, and we will form a national task force to focus on safety and security on a systematic level," the minister said Wednesday during his visit to the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape.
On Jan. 6, Mboneli Vesele, a bodyguard of the university's Vice Chancellor Sakhele Buhlungu, was shot dead, and the university deemed it an attempt on the vice-chancellor's life.
The university has a "pattern" of "assassinations and threats on personnel," according to the Department of Higher Education and Training, which added that other colleges and universities had also experienced security issues.
