UPDATE: R10 000 reward offered for the arrest of UKZN student following assault of professor

POLITICAL and social commentator, Kiru Naidoo, has offered a reward of R10 000 for the arrest of a University of KwaZulu-Natal student who was caught on camera assaulting a 77 Year old emeritus professor during a protest on Wednesday.

ALSO READ: VIDEO: UKZN condemns assault of professor at Westville campus

The professor has been identified as Erwin Brüning, a maths researcher and German national.

In the video, Brüning can be seen being manhandled as he approaches one of the three blockades that had been set up by protesting students at the university’s Westville campus.

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UKZN westville students aren't serious uncle Joshua just wants to to work pic.twitter.com/dfMLa4dnQz

— idlozi lakini (@TheKleev) February 19, 2020

Naidoo wrote on his social media accounts, “Please help me find this lad so that I could teach him a lesson. And let me have his parents’ details too so that I can visit to share how he has dishonoured them. The man he assaulted has already stood up more courageously than the lad ever will. I am putting up R10 000 to help the university identify the perpetrator so that he can be charged and appropriately disciplined.”

The UKZN management said they have been in contact with the professor and they are providing him with support and counselling.

They also said they are working with SAPS so that the perpetrator can be arrested.

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