The student representative council said the protests are on pause for 24 hours on condition the university removes private security and lifts suspension of students.
Wits students are demanding that the university provide accommodation to those who are homeless or cannot afford the residence fee, and that students with R150,000 historical debt should be allowed to register.
The students caused havoc in the Johannesburg CBD last week and marched to the house of vice-chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi on Sunday night, where a student threatened to “burn down” his house. Mabe said the SRC does not condone such behaviour, but defended the student for “expressing how he feels”. “Sometimes in a protest, we allow for freedom of speech and it was a student who was expressing themselves. The student was exercising how they felt. As the SRC, we take the stance that we will remain as peaceful as possible so that our demands are dealt with.”
SRC secretary-general Tshiamo Chuma commended the university for making an about-turn on barring the media from campus.“We engaged with the institution to allow freedom of expression and for society to see what we are going through. In regards to that, the media is back here so that the university does not put their own narrative,” she said.
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