Students Appalled After CPUT Gives 3 Reasons Why They Can’t Accommodate Unhoused Scholars

• It has been a very long week for a lot of CPUT students who had to endure sleeping outside their campus 
• The university recently explained to the scholars why they cannot help them with accommodation 
• South Africa sympathised with the now-homeless students who travelled from different provinces to get to Cape Town
• A CPUT student shared how the school betrayed its students during the first weeks of the school year

Cape Peninsula University of Technology is notoriously known for its chaotic beginnings of every school year.

Once again there are student protests over residence after scholars endured a week of sleeping outside their campus.

CPUT gives 3 reasons they can’t accommodate scholars

South African students registered at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology had a very rough first week of their school. The scholars endured the brutality of sleeping outside their campuses after being denied access to student residences.

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After many protests, the school finally communicated with the students in a series of Facebook posts. CPUT explained that, unfortunately, they have no plan to accommodate the unhoused students as all of their residences are full.

The first Facebook post read:

“The university prioritises female first-year students who have applied on time. These students are placed on or close to campus so that they are safer.”

The second Facebook post:

“Failing students want to take a residence place from academically deserving peers. These selfish individuals expect to clog the system by staying in residence for years as they carry multiple failed subjects. Meanwhile, an academically deserving first-year needs that bed.”

The third Facebook post:

“Disciplinary issues. Residences need to be safe for all. If you have pending DC's then that impacts your eligibility for res. Keep that in mind if you are tempted to join protest action. You could lose your residence spot.”

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The university also announced that they prioritised female students and shared why they didn’t welcome walk-in applications this year:

“CPUT is so popular that this year we reached enrolment capacity in record time in our undergraduate programmes. This is why the university has not opened for walk-ins for late applications.

“Congrats to the class of 2025 who applied on time, were accepted and now will be starting their academic journey with us. Your investment in your academic future will pay dividends in years to come.”

A CPUT student, Mika, was hopeless after the school shared their posts. The lady shared her thoughts on TikTok with the caption:

“We are a joke to them.”

See the TikTok post below:

CPUT student speaks to Briefly News about poor operations

Mika explained that the Cape Peninsula University of Technology has betrayed and lied to their students who had to sleep outside of their campus for over two weeks:

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“I’m a returning student so I actually posted that to raise awareness on how the students are treated. The school has been lying saying they’ve placed students in some of their residences but there’s no proof of it.

"Everything started going south when most of the students registered due to financial block which was weird because they’d never used NSFAS before. When we tried talking to the school, they didn’t reply to us, they started this residence problem whereby the students who were hired by the school to help newcomers told them to go to school in numbers to show the school how serious they were.”

Mzansi reacts to CPUT residence issue in viral post

Social media users shared their thoughts on the chaotic situation at CPUT:

@Dillon Armstrong wrote:

“CPUT was like, ‘You know what? Let me drag these people.”

@Noxie shared:

“This school doesn’t take us seriously.”

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@Z💋 commented:

“This can’t be real.”

@kay636 asked:

“Does your university know that these are people they're talking about? Like human beings?”

3 More stories by Briefly News

• SA was pained after watching a series of videos of the horrific situation of CPUT registered students sleeping outside
• Mzansi came together to comfort an emotional South African scholar ready to quit university due to pressure and mom drowning in debt
• Wits University student gagged fellow scholars with her luxurious res tour in a now-viral TikTok video

Source: Briefly News