SABC News and Current Affairs — Three universities - Wits, Pretoria and the Tshwane University of Technology - are all expected to resume academic activities in the next few days. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has joined Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib and others in warning that this academic year could be lost in many cases if the protests continue. More than 260 people are now known to have died in yesterday's earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan, spreading to northern IndiaBritish Airways operator, Comair, is investigating a landing incident which occurred at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport yesterday. SUDISHA