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Did you feel like this week was a year? I feel like I was on a rollercoaster, granted it’s the best ride in the park but I don’t like hanging upside down!
Let’s start with possibly the most important story this week and that is #FinancialExclusion #asinamali, the 2021 version of #FeesMustFall. I was watching the #WitsProtest unfold, the original messaging was that NSFAS had defunded a great number of students who were behind with their payments to the University.
I didn’t get that bit, in my world if you have a Purchase Order, you will get paid and I will continue doing the work. In Wits’ world POs don’t count and students get excluded because of dodgy accounting. I was furious. Only to learn more horror as the protest went from a peaceful one to SAPS taking devastating action.
Cele, Mawela visit home of man shot dead by police during Wits protest Police Minister Beki Cele, Gauteng Commissioner Elias Mawela and officials from police watchdog Ipid are expected to meet with Mthokosizi Mthumba s family. FILE: Police Minister Bheki Cele. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.
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KEMPTON PARK - Police top brass on Thursday arrived at the Kempton Park home of the 35-year-old man who was killed in the Braamfontein student protest.
Police Minister Beki Cele, Gauteng Commissioner Elias Mawela and officials from police watchdog Ipid are expected to meet with Mthokozisi Ntumba s family.
He was killed on Wednesday when police opened fire with rubber bullets to try and disperse protesting Wits University students who were demanding historical debt be scrapped.