Fees Must Fall activist Kanya Cekeshe will spend Christmas at home after being released on parole.
Department of Justice and Correctional Services spokesperson Chrispin Phiri confirmed Cekeshe's release on parole.
A friend who has been campaigning for his release, Nkanyiso Ngqulunga, told TimesLIVE:"He doing good and very happy about his release."A former media studies student at Footprint Academy in Braamfontein, Cekeshe had lived in Johannesburg with his parents, Ngqulunga said previously. He has three siblings.
Cekeshe was one of thousands of prisoners who benefitted from a remission of sentences for a certain category of prisoners which was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on December 16. Cekeshe has been in Leeuwkop prison since December 2017 after being sentenced to an eight-year prison term - three of which were suspended - for public violence and malicious damage to property. He pleaded guilty to setting a police vehicle alight during a #FeesMustFall protest in 2016.
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