Student injured during Wits protest
BRAAMFONTEIN – Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets on the campus.
Another student has apparently been injured during clashes between the police and students of Wits University in Braamfontein this afternoon.
A stun grenade apparently detonated near the student.
Eye witnesses said in an attempt to disperse the protesting students the Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets on the campus.
UPDATE: Two students admitted to hospital after clash with private security
#FeesMust Fall student leader Busisiwe Seabe spoke out this morning against the private security members who were hired by Wits and said they were the cause of the students who had been injured and admitted to hospital in the clashes.
Seabe spoke on the steps of the Great Hall where students, security guards and riot police clashed and threw stones at each other after protesting students tried to gain entry to Solomon Mahlangu House.
“The students tried to enter peacefully so that we could congregate at Solomon Mahlangu House but were met with force by private security who started pushing and beating students off the Great Hall stairs and that’s when students started to defend themselves by breaking dustbins and throwing rocks at private security to try and move private security so that we could enter,” Seabe explained.
