The protests come three weeks into registration for the year. The university has among the largest numbers of undergraduate and diploma students, with an enrolment of 60,000, many of whom live in student residences.
In the Eastern Cape, Walter Sisulu University's Butterworth campus was shut down following renewed protest action yesterday.
Activity was suspended at the Tshwane university's Pretoria (West) campus after a group of workers barricaded gates, preventing access.
TUT spokeswoman Willa de Ruyter said: "Management has received a memorandum from the group of workers and is currently meeting to discuss the issues raised in the memorandum."
At Walter Sisulu, police and campus security were called after unregistered students occupied residences at the institution's Butterworth campus, including rooms earmarked for students who were recently registered.
The university managed to clear the residences and the campus by midday, but the university said it could not be held responsible for the safety of those who remained.
University spokeswoman Yonela Tukwayo said it called in the police because the students had blockaded the N2 leading to the campus and this had put members of the public in danger.
Walter Sisulu Butterworth does not have a students' representative council, despite attempts to establish one. The university maintains that any attempts to reconstitute a students' representative council have been consistently sabotaged by a group of students at the university.
Tukwayo said: "There were issues with regards to the first election of the (students' council) so it was rendered invalid (by the Electoral Commission of SA)."
The University of Pretoria and Unisa both struck insourcing agreements last week that put an end to protests over outsourcing.
North West University, which seemed to be on the verge of further protest action last week, has quietened down. In-person registration at the university's Mahikeng campus was disrupted by protesters, resulting in the university asking students to register online.
Source: Business Day via I-net Bridge
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