Hundreds of University of Johannesburg students were protesting on their campuses on Monday morning, Gauteng police confirmed.
Police spokesperson Constable Sefako Xaba said police had been called to the campus on Bunting Road where about 200 students had gathered.
He said the students were ”running around” but no damage had been reported.
About a hundred students from the Doornfontein campus in central Johannesburg were leaving to join other protesters at the old RAU campus in Auckland Park, said Xaba.
University of Johannesburg spokesperson Sonja Cronje confirmed the protest was taking place.
The protest is related to proposed fee hikes at the university.
On Sunday various students bodies voiced ”utter dismay” at the hikes.
”The action taken by the university management is nothing but a continuous trend by certain administrators of higher education in order to commodify education as a basic need of the South African people,” said the students in a statement.
Fees were going up 5% for diploma students, 6% for degree students and 8% across the board, with a R250 increase on ICT levies and services, said the university’s branches of
the Progressive Youth Alliance, the South African Students’ Congress, African National Congress Youth League and the Student Representative Council.
Last week the University of the Witwatersrand saw protest action by students demanding zero percent increases for next year.
Protesting students stormed into lecture theatres, disrupted classes and chased lecturers. Police used rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of students throwing bricks and stones at motorists at Wits on Wednesday.
Two students — the Student Representative Council (SRC) president and deputy president — were arrested during the incident. – Sapa