Pretoria - From sex in the library to throwing condoms filled with water at other students and stealing university property. These are just some of the shocking “confessions” made by university students.
“Confessions” by students at KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town and Rhodes universities can be found on Facebook, based on the website Teen Confessions. Students submit anonymous posts that are read by thousands.
UKZN’s executive director of corporate relations, Nomonde Mbadi, said measures were being explored to have the pages closed.
Phindile Mlaba, 22, at Howard College campus in Durban, said: “I think it’s great. I would use it as a tool to warn other students about crime on campus or other things. People need to know what happens at varsity.”
Warren Narayadu, 20, likes the page and reads the confessions regularly. “I think it’s funny. Some things are overshare, but it’s all right as long as people don’t discriminate against others. I love that it is anonymous. I will post something.”
Another UKZN student, Londeka Ngubane, said she would use the page: “I’d post amusing confessions, but not to discriminate against others. I think some of the stuff on the page is so funny.”
Launched last Monday, the page had more than 8 000 “likes” by Thursday. However, Howard College Student Representative Council president Sandile Ngcobo believes the page should be closed.
“It is bad for the institute’s reputation. There are no regulations, so this is degrading.”
Mbadi said the university was aware of the “confessions” pages.
“Due to the anonymous nature of these pages, the university is unable to control and restrict the content or block administrators. The university is exploring measures with Facebook to close pages in cases where serious allegations are made that have no merit, and proceed with legal action against those who bring the university’s name and reputation into disrepute.”
What they got up to:
#34: My boyfriend and I got right up to 3rd base in the law library archives section way back in 2011, haven’t used that spot since, but probably would again.
#47: I Stabbed all 4 tires of a girl’s car in the Shepstone car park, just because her face annoyed me.
#57: I’m 20 years old and my mum still chooses my clothes.
#65: In first year I got stuck in the toilet in Shepstone, while taking a dump while some strikers were outside tearing the place apart, there were a couple hundred of them, so when I got out the bathroom I joined the queue and started singing “hai, hai, hai” as a fake striker till I reached the car park then I bailed.
#144: I thought people would be smarter in engineering or at least act like it, most people I’ve met so far are huge tools.
#124: Something we like to call the “spirit bomb”, filling a condom with water, standing on the 2nd floor of a building and throwing it on anyone that we see walking below.
#122: Was in the toilets at UKZN Westville when I heard the guy in the stall next to me masturbating. We finished together and as we walked out i gave him a look, like “i know”, and he looked highly embarrassed. Worst part is we see each other quite often, and he always seems extremely uneasy, serves him right!
#116: Spitting on the buttons in the lifts so that no one can use them.
#99: I sometimes use my roommate’s electric toothbrush as a vibrator. I think she might know and that kind of turns me on a little.
#90: I’m so tired of seeing couples hook up right in front of me in the park, it’s not that I’m jealous, i’d just like to eat my breyani without the live show.
#197: When there’s hot girls in my lecture I watch and wait for her to sign her name on the register so that I can stalk her on facebook. - Pretoria News