Picture: (Fury as NWU up in smoke)

Rustenburg – An enormous quantity of petrol and a large number of petrol bombs were found at the Mahikeng Campus of the North West University (NWU), Vice Chancellor Professor Dan Kgwadi said on Thursday.

“If the university did not react on time, it was possible that the university would have been burned down.”

He said the campus would remain closed until order was restored.

“Our approach has been to take the campus from the students and establish authority. We had a meeting with parents to explain the situation. We felt that the best thing was to close the campus so that sanity must prevail,” said Kgwadi.

He said there were damages at the campus and it was still risky for staff and students.

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