The demonstrating students told Eyewitness News that it was careless of the financial aid scheme to rollout a payment system that constantly had technical issues - making access to their funds a nightmare.
Tshwane University of Technology hosted a special memorial service for third-year student Ntokozo Manyenzi Xaba at the Soshanguve South campus on Thursday.
TUT students to join fees protests Protesting Wits students on Monday blockaded roads outside the university. File photo. Image: Alaister Russell/Sunday Times
Students from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) are preparing to join the student protests as they are a week away from completing their 2020 academic calendar.
TUT SRC president Mike Mothiba has condemned the ongoing police violence and called on police minister Bheki Cele and President Cyril Ramaphosa to ban the use of rubber bullets against young people.
“The student debt keeps increasing yearly and more students are denied access to universities while many others have completed their studies with nothing to show as universities have kept their qualification.
"Students are writing and they are only finishing next week Friday, so we won't be joining the forces now. But as soon as they are done then we will join," said TUT SRC president Mike Mothuba.