President Jacob Zuma and Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande spoke at the Higher Education Stakeholder Summit this morning.
The interactions between private security personnel, students and journalists continues to sour
The students had marched from the main campus on Kingsway Road, escorted by the police, who directed traffic and kept them in their protest line.
The student protester says an electronic vote would enable the Wits vice-chancellor to ‘manipulate the system’.
As students sang in protest outside UJ’s Soweto campus, Vincent Gabarone wheeled himself into the demonstration to join the call for free education.
Former Wits SRC leader Shaeera Kalla says student leaders at the university have shown they are not interested in debating fee increments.
Wits’s former SRC president says the ANC secretary general’s comment on closing universities to teach protesters a lesson was irresponsible.
When they’re out in the streets, students in the #FeesMustFall protests seem united.
As students scrambled to safety after police shot rubber bullets at them, one student was injured after falling on top of a stun grenade.
At least one student was injured on Wednesday after a confrontation between students and police at the University of the Witwatersrand.