Wits VC pleads with Nzimande for guidance The installation of Professor Zeblon Vilakazi as the vice-chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand was postponed after a man was shot by police in Braamfontein on Wednesday. Mthokozisi Ntumba, 35, was hit by three rubber bullets during a student protest. He was walking on De Beer Street in Braamfontein from a clinic. Wits students have been protesting against the exclusion of some students who have historical debt and cannot reregister because of their outstanding fees. Vilakazi said on Thursday that the university regrets the death of Ntumba because of the bad handling of the student protest.