A HEAVY police presence marked the third day of applications at the University of Johannesburgyesterday.

SAPS members, metro police and emergency services vehicles parked inside and outside UJ's Bunting Road campus, where Gloria Sekwena was killed in a stampede that ensued when a huge crowd tried to enter the grounds.

In another development yesterday, university spokesman Herman Esterhuizen announced that the institution had decided to sponsor Kgositsile Sekwena's studies. He is the young man who lost his mother Grace during the stampede.

Community safety and policing authorities responded to Tuesday's chaos by deploying more than 30 officers, who kept an eye on the queue outside the gates, together with the UJ's protection services personnel.

The university's administrators also helped the police to marshal prospective students into orderly queues and checking whether they had the correct documents. Only candidates in possession of admission letters were allowed entry.

The university yesterday cancelled the processing of late applications.

"Regrettably, we hereby announce that no further late applications will be considered for the 2012 academic year," said Esterhuizen.

He said the decision had not been prompted by the stampede and the death of Sekwena, but had been taken because the institution had received about 7000 late applications and could not accommodate more students.

Esterhuizen said the university would remain open only to provide services to applicants who had already been admitted.

Applicants without admission letters were turned away yesterday and were told to "go home" and to "try again next year" by the burly security guards.

The queue that had formed around the corner in the early morning quickly diminished as security personnel insisted that only people with acceptance letters should remain in the queue.

Sixteen people were injured in the stampede. One person is still in hospital. He was transferred from Milpark Park Hospital in Johannesburg to 1 Military Hospital in Tshwane.