A student has taken the extraordinary measure of taking the University of KZN to court to account for the whereabouts of a question paper for an exam he failed.

The Witness reports Lephetha Japi has alleged that pages of the question paper of a supplementary English 102 exam he took in 2017 were ‘disorderly’, which caused him to fail the exam.

He has turned to the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) in an attempt to get sight of the original examination question paper and to obtain a copy of it after he made several requests to UKZN for the paper, which supposedly went unanswered.

UKZN, however, claims the question paper is nowhere to be found, and labelled this a ‘unique situation’ in which the lecturer who set the paper, Darryl David, ‘failed to comply with protocols’ of filing the question paper in the university’s records.

David resigned from UKZN earlier this year to take up a position at the University of the Western Cape.

Compounding the problem is that David is apparently refusing to get involved in resolving the matter because he left UKZN on a sour note.

The matter came before Judge Anton van Zyl yesterday, when it was adjourned indefinitely.

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