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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A University of Fort Hare employee was found in his flat in Alice, with his hands tied and with tape over his mouth, after he failed to report for work.<\/p>\n

Eastern Cape police are investigating an attempted murder case after the 32-year-old man’s colleagues found him in his home on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The incident comes two weeks after an attempt on the life of the university’s vice-chancellor, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, in the same neighbourhood, during which his bodyguard, Mboneli Vesele, was killed.<\/p>\n

Commenting on Wednesday’s incident, police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana said the man’s colleagues noticed that he had not reported for work.<\/p>\n

“They then went to investigate in his flat, where they eventually found him. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital for medical care after they noticed that he was not well,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added:<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

After Vesele’s murder, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, labelled the incident as “a pattern of assassinations and threats on staff at the university”.<\/p>\n

Buhlungu became vice-chancellor at Fort Hare in 2017 and was appointed for a second term last year.<\/p>\n

The academic was credited with implementing turnaround strategies and rooting out corruption at the institution.<\/p>\n

In May last year, the university’s fleet manager, Peet Roets, was shot dead close to his Gonubie home after leaving the university’s Alice campus.<\/p>\n

It is thought to have been a hit because Roets had been working at eradicating corruption involving the university’s fleet network.<\/p>\n

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