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The suspects were arrested at the weekend in connection with the murder of the institution's fleet manager, Petrus Roets, and the vice chancellor's bodyguard, Mboneli Vesele.
The spate of "terror attacks" against University of Fort Hare staff have generally been directed at its senior executives, senior aides of the vice-chancellor and managers in non-academic and support function portfolios with large capital expenditure budgets which are prone to criminal infestation, the institution said on Friday.
A University of Fort Hare employee was found in his flat in Alice, with his hands tied and tape over his mouth, after he failed to report for work.
University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, has described his late bodyguard, Mboneli Vesele as an employee that took the bullet for him.
The Department of Higher Education and Training will establish a national task force dedicated to ensuring the safety of employees at universities, Minister Blade Nzimande has said.