Elections disrupted

THE Student Representative Council elections at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology took a turn when students disrupted the counting of votes, which resulted in more delays.

The voting took place at the weekend, with the EFF Student Command) confident of a clean sweep after it clinched victory at the Bellville Campus.

In today’s edition we report that some students, believed to be affiliated to the South African Students Congress and the Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania, allegedly disrupted the counting on Sunday night. They claimed the elections were rigged.

Last night President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he delivered the eighth annual Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture in front of a packed Artscape Theatre. Tutu celebrated his 87th birthday on Sunday.

The president spoke about restorative justice in South Africa 20 years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which Tutu chaired.

Train commuters wait to hear the outcome of a court battle between the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) and the Rail Safety Regulator over the suspension of safety permits.

The regulator suspended Prasa’s safety permit after an accident in Gauteng last week.

A report released by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global temperatures will rise by 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if the world continues to warm at its current rate.

This would have catastrophic effects on water scarcity and global food production and would nearly wipe out global coral reef systems.