{"id":51006,"date":"2023-04-24T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/vice-chancellor-hosts-first-spu-alumni-dinner-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T05:48:12","slug":"spu-statement-on-alleged-student-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-statement-on-alleged-student-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU statement on alleged student assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"51006\" class=\"elementor elementor-51006\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c891cce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c891cce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a345ff7\" data-id=\"6a345ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71cfc1c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71cfc1c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a><\/span> (SPU) is aware of an incident that took place on Friday, 21 April 2023 involving two of its students. It is alleged that a fourth-year male student assaulted a first-year female student at a residence on campus. \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bThe University wishes to put on record that it does not tolerate violent or criminal behaviour by its staff and students.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The University is aware that the incident was reported to the law enforcement agencies and the alleged perpetrator has been arrested.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the interim, the University has instituted an investigation into the matter and will follow its disciplinary procedures and protocols.\u00a0 The alleged perpetrator will be temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure, until the investigation has been finalised.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SPU is committed to ensuring the safety and security of its community and vehemently condemns any form of violence, harassment, intimidation and misconduct of students and staff.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is aware of an incident that took place on Friday, 21 April 2023 involving two of its students. It is alleged that a fourth-year male student assaulted a first-year female student at a residence on campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-statement-on-alleged-student-assault\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":51011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[241],"class_list":["post-51006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51022,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51006\/revisions\/51022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51006"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=51006"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}