Police, students and security guards are engaged in running battles as UKZN students demanded that issues including historical debt be dealt with. DailyNewsSA
University of KwaZulu-Natal students are led away by police officers after a protest broke out at Howard College campus on Monday. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo / African News Agency / ANAStudents run amok at the Howard College Campus of the University of KZN over historical debt. Picture / DOCTOR NGCOBO/AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY Picture:: DOCTOR NGCOBO/AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY Students clash with police and private security company during a protest over historical debt fees at UKZN Howard College campus.
Police and security guards fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the students, who were throwing rocks and broken bricks at the officers. Four students were arrested at the Howard College Campus. Another student pleaded that pictures and videos of his arrest not be shared on social media. Mphathi Majola, campus chairperson of the EFF student command, said they were protesting against students being asked to pay 15% of the historical debt they owed. Majola said students did not have money to pay this and so could not register for degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He said the protest was led by students.
While he was talking to the media, a flurry of rocks thrown by students nearly hit the student leaders.
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