More than 200 female students at Fort Hare University held a silent protest outside the institution's East London campus on Wednesday.
This, after a lecturer who resigned last October after two students laid sexual harassment complaints against him, was the subject of a Checkpoint documentary aired on ENCA last night.
The lecturer, who also taught at UCT and Rhodes University, resigned on the same day that a second sexual harassment complaint was laid against him and while disciplinary proceedings regarding the first complaint were still underway.
He was subsequently found guilty by Fort Hare of sexual assault.
Student activist, Sinazo Gxabhashe, of the group Active Citizens, said the lecture would seek sexual favors from female students in exchange for marks.
"The management was very ignorant and incompetent in dealing with the conduct of the perpetrator," she said.
In the Checkpoint documentary, Fort Hare Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sakhele Buhlungu, said that a Senate meeting last year characterised the situation as an "emergency" and said that a task team was set up to draft a sexual harassment policy for the institution.
But he conceded that "there is still no policy, absolutely no policy," in place as yet at Fort Hare.
Two criminal charges were reportedly laid but Eastern Cape police said no arrests were made as yet.
