27 OCTOBER 2015 6AM

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 India**British Airways operator, Comair, is investigating a landing incident which occurred at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport yesterday*. SUDISHA