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Bloemfontein is home to the University of the Free State and the Central University of Technology. It’s now a bona fide student town as thousands flock to these campuses from around the country. But there isn’t enough on-site accommodation to house them all; conditions ripe for manipulation. Some have spotted a lucrative opportunity to illegally convert their own homes into crowded student digs., or to build cramped digs on any available open stand. It’s caused havoc in some suburbs as service delivery, intended for smaller suburbs, is stretched to the limit. Residents who’ve for years called these once quiet suburbs home, now contend with overflowing sewage, raucous parties, and plummeting property prices. Carte Blanche goes knocking.
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Thank you Tjaart and the Universitas Neighborhood Association for standing up and making a difference. I appreciate all of you and for the Carte Blanch team for this report.
We have the very same issue have in Durban. UKZN & DUT student accomodations are everywhere and the standard is BAD. Noise, Crime and Dumping of bottles and other rubish on the side and the street is real problem as Ethekwini Municipality like in case of Bloem is not doing enough. No surprise here.
Now where is SARS now?? How many of these extra income is declared on tax returns?
To be honest this seems like a serious fail for almost all parties involved.
Great reporting Carte Blanche. Just one thing, what is the dropout rate at universities? My perspective is universities are more about quantity (number of enrolled students) than quality (passing rate/completion of studies). Thus it would be interesting how many students complete their curriculum. Also it takes one home owner converting a property into a student accommodation and bring the whole neighbourhood down to slum status. Some students are just plain undisciplined, all about partying and substance abuse. They are the rotten apples in the basket. Landlords must enforce house rules on the students to prevent disturbing the peace, littering and substance abuse. Landlords must also be held accountable what happens on their property. The universities with all their clever people must, with the help of the municipalities, plan, finance construction to provide proper affordable accommodation for students. The universities and municipalities will definately make their money back by investing in infrastructure instead students living in these slums provided by greedy landlords.
They cannot talk abt building plans not being approved when the municipalities stopped approving plans 5 years ago. My friend wanted to extend her house & after 3 years of going from pillar to post a municipal employee told her to just go ahead that is what everybody does.
Sad
You can imagine how doomed South Africa is if this is the calibre of tertiary institution students being "groomed" to become the next professionals, leaders etc. Sadly, this condition is not unique to the University of the Free State but all Universities in South Africa yet the government of the day constantly appears to be very comfortable in its nonchalant attitude towards this and other problems.
An inevitable admission needs to be made that Universitas and Brandwag are no longer ideal places for families. The sooner people accept this the better. It is unfortunate but a sad reality that is not going to change🤞🏽
With a dysfunctional Municipality that is going to remain dysfunctional for the next coming 10 years at least, matters may even be worse.
Accountability, accountability, accountability!! That’s one thing our leaders and society has lost sense of! Where there’s no law, there’s havoc. Just looking at that park that is so dilapidated tells you the whole sad story of what is going on in those Council offices!
Well said 👍
Phew... does anything matter to this brutal negligent ANC?
Ruin ...and more ruin.
....leave a comment...aaaand nothing ever happens😢
Unfortunately, it is a vicious cycle... Universities can't take in fewer students... especially after fees must fall.
Mac, you passed Bedworthpark coverng this story Bro, come back lol
They must build them a Hatfield
It's the same with the University of Stellenbosch, The character of the town is gone and the municipality only benefit from this.
No respect for others...this is what happens when everything's FREE
I am sorry to ask but where are the students getting money from for alcohol?If it comes out of NSFAS funds this shouldn't be allowed.
From NSFAS. When has there ever been accountability in the New South Africa.
NSFAS gives them about 2K food allowance so they probably take it from there.
There’s also a way of converting textbook allowances into cash
Phew... does anything matter to this brutal negligent ANC?
Ruin ...and more ruin.
😭Y’all should visit grahamstown, bloem is better
Grahamstown is on another level 😂😂🤞🏽🤞🏽
like how bad is it to what we have seen here
That's all I keep thinking...Come to Makhanda and see
This has always been a beautiful university town; but not closely like this mess now; unfortunately these kids are there to party as they get everything for free; why would they be serious or appreciate anything as they don't have to work for it.
White people should be the last to talk about anyone getting anything for free please sit down. The audacity 😂
very typical of you monica
@@tlhalefangchelechele6303 She's not wrong though; look at the qualification completion rates. Unfortunately, money is wasted on non-completions and less available for those who'd like to study but can't afford it but would do so if some more funding were there. As for student accommodation, the government needs to intervene as this is a clear market failure and could do so if more funding was available and not wasted. See how that works? Time to reign in the waste and start to fix the two issues.
I lived in University town for years, I have never seen this happen. Probably it depends on areas. There's no this lawless in Hatfield. The law must be enforced.
@@tlhalefangchelechele6303 its more typical of you people to want to destroy abuse and want everything on a platter...where ever you are... the value of homes rapidly drop because of behaviour like this....i pray that the Western Cape secedes very soon...at least that way we can have more control over our own Western Cape Independent country without destroyers like you and your cronies.
Unregulated migration
> South Africa is OVERPOPULATED, One small country housing too many COUNTRIES.
> South African children are misplaced in different towns for schools and Universities, because there is no spaces for then near their home town schools and universities.
Students will always need cheap accommodation, they will drive whether they accept the standards on offer ,and when the demand outstrips the supply, this will always happen, no matter where
Its the same same as WSU in Mthatha and East London.
We in WC are enduring the same rowdy out of control high levels of disturbance in the University of the Western Cape surrounds. Some Property owners moved out and converted their homes to student accom. The City of Cape Town sanctioned construction densely uprises without consulting residents and the impact on the area. We r all being left to the dogs . BELHAR was a peaceful village. Now it facing lots of crime of all sorts.
this is an issue everywhere in all university suburbs (the whole of downtown Durban,Berea up Bellair and surrounding, Manor gardens) its a mess and its been a mess for years. Drug dealers will be moving in soon
If that's how students are behaving, I can't place much faith in the future engineers and doctors.
You really think that any of them are studying hard actual subjects. These students are all studying useless soft degrees in useless subjects like social studies and the laughably named Humanities....
South Africa had a much better opportunity to be compliant in many matters in the early 90’s, but goodwill got badly lost, and abused, along the way.
We have exactly the same problem in Durban. However, in Durban we have formed a residents' group and we are working with the university to install a Code of Conduct and a number of sanctions for offenders. We also have a dysfunctional planning department that has made it clear they are not interested in solving this problem.
Hi Niki, where in Durban is this? I'm interested because its my hometown.
I lived in one of these student accommodations, it was a feudal paradise. Theft, violence & sexual harassments all day everyday…..those things need to be regulated.
Welcome to South Africa
I m a previous student of the Tshwane University of technology, before I register for WIL(Work Intergrated learning) at UJ, I would like to inform Carte blanche to visit TUT's(main campus) students residency, the parked us like animals. Tow students had to share a room smaller than normal bathroom of which u cannot fit a kingside bed, each student pays R4200 per month, they don't understand that we need privacy sometimes. 95% of all TUT accommodations are sharing and most of them are not inspected, accredited or not.
We are living in lawless a state. People just do as they please.
Potholes all over Bloem
Bloemfontein has turned into a dump and Welkom isn't far behind ! I won't comment further on this matter, as some individuals may take it personally... 👍
VIVA ANC....
Lol 😂😂
Thank God I live in the middle of nowhere and am not confronted with any of this BS. Goodluck ya'll
The problem is the country we are in. You cannot blame students for being exactly that, students. And with how expensive house ownership is becoming - especially for the disadvantaged citezens, who most of the time have to build something from basically nothing in this country, you cannot blame them for cutting corners and taking advantage of such an ineffective housing system that is meant to avoid such a mixture. And I sympathize with the families who have to suffer through this. I wonder where do we go from here as a country. I really wonder if there is a turning point to this downfall, some light at the end of this dark tunnel - pun intended.
Hello there!
Welcome to the new south efrica. if one doesn't pay their own way, this happens. PAY YOUR WAY!
This is happening all over the country not just here, the storyline is always the same. Citizens don't get respect, high unemployment and students needing accommodation, in my area we have experienced a spike in crime and a spike in armed and unamred robberies.
The same thing is happening in Randfontein, these students behave like animals every weekend. They have no empathy or consideration towards their neighbours they party all night long & throw their trash everywhere. It's terrible I thought this is only happening in Randfontein but clearly I'm wrong. This truly marks the end of our peaceful suburbs.
I seriously dont care. My students are happy and paying for my bond monthly 😅its a win for me!
Danko😂
How much of that student accommodation rent is paid for in cash. SARS?
Its our land after all we have to build and build
Where should the students go
Would love to know where all these students will work.
😅😅😅
So much for the city being under national administration! A disaster for all involved just because people aren't doing their work properly.
Bloemfontein residents really need to vote wisely in the next elections the city has completely collapsed thank God we managed to sell our house this year
Ahhy next plz investigate slum landlords in the Bloemfontein area that charge the whole nsfas rate for sub standard accommodations, others the students need to top up with their meal allowances. The very same landlords receive accreditation from the universities but for don't follow the rules of accreditation. 90%+ students don't get back their deposits with interest let alone the whole deposit they paid even if nothing has been damaged in the property. Plus these ridiculous admin fees they charge and bursary handling fees😷🤢🤮
Lol it's weird watching this men I was lucky where I stayed there where few students.. But was nice going to those areas for the parties.. But now that I work I'm like a hypocrite I get annoyed by the loud noise students make.
Maybe they should go to Colleges. It's what us plebs did if we couldn't afford Uni. Fuken Simple.
The anc closed all the colleges down.
So the parents pay and hopefully the students get good grades
Where to house them? The central results of South African schools has an idea the year before, to actually make plans for the new academic year. Simple abc's.
Students need to celebrate on campus where police have no access. Students go through a right of passage, and it seems like it’s an ongoing process for some. If they live in the neighbourhoods then they need to abide by the law, and police have every right to intervene. Because you’ve been accepted into a University, it’s not a guarantee that allows them to behave like a bunch of baboons. You are future leaders maybe, so start behaving like an educated descent human being, someone your kids could be proud of.
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I am surprised that these are most properly the same people that wants to toi toi about fees must fall on hat a joke
welkom in afrika
Advocate hahaha. Nying the system
Hahahahahaha rogue's. All just crooks hahahaha