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Student shot in the leg during fees clashes in Braamfontein, SRC says 'We're continuing the rest of the week, until our demands are met. The week might not be enough — we might need a month': Wits SRC president By Iavan Pijoos and Belinda Pheto - 15 March 2021 The police used water cannons to disperse protesting Wits University students on Monday. Image: Alaister Russell A Wits student was shot in the leg during protests on Monday, the university's SRC president Mpendulo Mfeka told TimesLIVE. The student's condition was not immediately known. There were als...

UNIVERSITY students have vowed to continue with their demands from free education until their demands are met.

A protesting Wits student was shot in the leg during clashes with police on Monday, the university's SRC president Mpendulo Mfeka told TimesLIVE.

Although some variant of the #FeesMustFall saga returns with metronomic regularity at the start of each academic year, it always seems to catch both government and universities by surprise.  The week ending on Friday, 12 March 2021, saw student protests at the universities of the Free State, Cape Town, Wits and Pretoria; government “reprioritising” the budget for the higher education sector, and “an innocent bystander”, Mthokozisi Ntumba, a 35-year-old father of three, and a recent MA graduate, dead.  All of this, especially the death of Ntumba, is unspeakable, yet it generates a re...

Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo has denied claims its members, deployed in Braamfontein, fired any shots during protests, after a student was shot in the leg.