The Mail & Guardian reported last week on the squalid conditions that black students in rural universities face (“UniZulu students’ accommodation conditions are ‘inhumane”). But those in charge are escaping blame. 25 years after democratic elections, why are students still living in shacks, Crammed together, without basic services, they walk far to campus, often in the dark, terrified of being mugged or raped?

GUEST: Bongekile Macupe is the education reporter at the Mail & Guardian