It was Rule 2.9 that finally sparked the revolt. On the evening news, cameras bobbed and weaved through a heaving crowd of furious, toyi-toying Technikon Witwatersrand students, as they demanded that management stop curtailing their personal freedom. That was August this year shortly after management issued the offending Rule 2.9 decreeing that students were not to receive visitors (of the opposite sex) in their residence rooms. While there are no formal surveys, guesstimates are that about 22 percent of South African university undergraduate students are HIV positive.