The robbery has put a spotlight on the string of muggings experienced by students in the Wits campus vicinity.
Vice Chancellor Prof Adam Habib is pictured, 29 October 2015, at the Senate House at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, during a meeting with campus staff and students about the outsourcing of workers on campus. Picture: Alaister Russell
Wits University vice-chancellor Professor Adam Habib on Thursday said he was robbed of his cellphone in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
Taking to Twitter, Habib warned his followers on the social network to be careful when walking in the area populated by students after he said he was robbed by “a guy in red sweater who jumped into [a] black car”.
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