The University of Fort Hare says a staff member who was attacked in his home off campus, will be discharged from the hospital on Friday.
University spokesperson, JP Roodt, says the employee is an electrician in the Maintenance Department.
He says Fort Hare is uncertain where the home invasion was motivated by work-related or non-work-related factors.
Roodt says the recent spate of attacks against the University were not directed at students or non-managerial or academic staff, but generally aimed at University executives, senior aides to the Vice-Chancellor, and managers in non-academic / support function portfolios with large capital expenditure budgets prone to criminal infestation.
He says that based on these assumptions, it is extremely unlikely that the incident is connected to the failed assassination attempt on the Vice-Chancellor and the murder of two employees last year and earlier this month.
Roodt says the institution's wellness unit will provide psychosocial support to the staff member and there will be further contact with the employee once he is discharged.
He says the family has asked for privacy during this time.
"The University appeals to fellow colleagues and members of the media to be mindful of this request," he added.
