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The Wits SRC claims police may have shot a student with a live round on Monday. It also said five students have been arrested.

Student shot, another injured in clashes with cops Penwell Dlamini and Mpho Koka"> By Penwell Dlamini and Mpho Koka - 16 March 2021 - 10:47 One student was shot with rubber bullets and another was injured after she fell when police clashed with protesting students in Johannesburg on the first day of the higher education national shutdown. The student who injured her right leg fell when police fired water cannons on Graf Street in Braamfontein was attended to by paramedics at the scene on Monday... This article is free to read if you register or sign in. If you have already regis...

Tertiary institutions across SA brace for planned national shutdown today The threats come after days of protests at various universities across the country last week. Wits University students protesting on 9 March 2021, over registration issues according to the student representative council. Picture: @Wits_SRC/Twitter. 31 days ago JOHANNESBURG - Tertiary education institutions across the country are bracing for a national shutdown planned from Monday threatening to delay the 2021 academic year. The threa...

Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images Nationwide protest action is expected after the SA Union of Students had a meeting with the higher education department to discuss its demands. SRCs have raised concerns regarding financial exclusion. Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo says police will be on high alert. Mass protest action across the country is expected on Monday as students from 26 different universities plan on bringing all institutions to a standstill. It comes after mounting concerns of financial exclusion raised by Student Representative Councils (SRC), who are calling for the immediate res...

They want historic debt to be cleared and that universities not increase fees this year.