Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University has announced the resumption of operations on Monday.
It says all staff will return on Monday so that the necessary preparations can be made for the resumption of all academic activities on Tuesday.
This, after four weeks of disruptions, intensive engagements with key stakeholders and a court-ordered mediation process to end the shutdown.
The University says during the shutdown, management had been meeting with various student formations in Port Elizabeth and George to ensure that university-specific demands were addressed.
It says there were two outstanding issues which led to the deadlock, namely the national call for free, quality, decolonized higher education; and the clearance of all debt for students who qualified for debt and down-payment relief in 2016.
NMMU says while it does not have the mandate to pronounce on these matters, it will deploy resources to engage in research and conduct dialogues that will hopefully inform the national road map towards the realization of free higher education for all. It says once a consensus position, based on research, has been co-created with its key stakeholders, NMMU will lobby this with national government.
