Bay students in threat to boycott vote

STUDENTS of the beleaguered Port Elizabeth College have called for political intervention in the impasse between them and management, which they say is a hopeless situation with no clear end in sight.

Resistance continued at the college's Russell Road campus yesterday, where a group of students gathered outside the gates after they were allegedly forced off campus by security using pepper spray.

The college has been rocked by protests over bursary allocations and a new promotion policy. Students have called for administrator Leon Beech's head.

Now students desperate to have the stalemate resolved after they have been out of class for the past two months are asking for political intervention, with some threatening to boycott the polls on May 7 unless political leaders step in. - Zandile Mbabela