Criminalising students and branding them as violent shows what is wrong with our country today - its inability to acknowledge the adjustments black students have to make for them to study at university, writes Nkanyiso Ngqulunga.
Wits students won t heed SAUS call to suspend protest over free higher education This is in contradiction to a decision taken by the union to suspend all protests, following a meeting with Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande earlier this week. FILE: A small group of protesting students blocked roads with stones and rubble in Braamfontein near Wits University as part of the National Shutdown over student finances on 15 March 2021. Picture: Mia Lindeque/Eyewitness News
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The students, together with the university s academics, plan to march on Thursday afternoon over the funding crisis.
This is in contradiction to a decision taken by the union to suspend all protests, following a meeting with Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande earlier this week.
Wits senior management locked in talks over student demands Students at campuses across the country have embarked on a national shutdown over free higher education. FILE: Wits University. Picture: Supplied.
JOHANNESBURG - Wits senior management have been locked in talks over student demands to have historical debt scrapped.
Protests turned violent in Braamfontein on Monday after a female student was shot and wounded.
The police said that none of their members deployed in the area fired any shots during the protest, adding that only a smoke grenade and water cannons were used.
#NationalShutdown Police are hoping to interview the woman who was wounded during the protest in Braamfontein yesterday. Students claim she was shot by police officers, but the SAPS denies this. EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) March 16, 2021
Wits SRC wants university to rename hardship fund after Mthokozisi Ntumba The fund was set up to help students who need financial assistance with registration and accommodation. Mthokozisi Ntumba was shot and killed during student protests on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. Picture: Facebook.
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JOHANNESBURG - Wits University student leaders on Tuesday visited the family of Mthokozisi Ntumba, who was killed during last week s protests.
The students had asked for permission from the family to allow them to make a proposal to the university to rename the institution’s hardship fund in his honour.
The fund was set up to help students who need financial assistance with registration and accommodation.