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Original Post Date: 2007-02-25 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
There was mayhem at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology on Thursday when at least five students and three security guards were injured during a student strike which turned violent.
A group of about 1 000 students on the Cape Town campus began throwing stones at 15 security guards, one of whom was stabbed in the back.
The guards retaliated by hitting the students with batons.
‘I didn’t see any stones being thrown’
“I was walking from class when I just heard screaming and saw people running. Some of them were getting beaten up by the security, it was shocking,” said second-year student Akhona Shasha.
The students had been protesting since Monday and were denied access to campus buildings, which were guarded by security officers.
Thursday’s violence followed the explosion of a petrol bomb which was thrown into a lift in the administration building late on Wednesday.
No one was injured and the matter was being investigated.
The angry students were toyi-toying near classrooms on Thursday and the situation got out of hand after they were asked to move as they had been “making a noise”.
‘We will fight with people who fight with us’
However, the group refused to budge.
“I didn’t see any stones being thrown, but the security guards started beating us up. I was hit and the secretary of the Student Representative Council (SRC) was assaulted very badly,” said Saziso Matiwane, SRC treasurer.
The majority of the group ran away but more than 300 students, many with cuts, bruises, torn clothes and one with a heavily bandaged head, gathered in the student centre where they continued toyi-toying.
As a group of security guards walked nearby they shouted rude remarks at them.
“Violence is our last resort, but we will fight with people who fight with us. This morning we were beaten up for demonstrating for what we believe in, but we will stop at nothing to ensure all students will be catered for,” said Matiwane.
SRC chairperson Lwandile Socikwa said they had been notified by university officials that the student leaders would be arrested if they disrupted classes again.
“But we’re not taking this lying down. Our aim was not to hurt the security, but we’re here to highlight and rectify the fact that some students are being excluded because of finances or academic issues,” he said.
Socikwa said they had met management a number of times to discuss what they felt was unfair treatment, but the situation had not changed.
Mandla Tshabalala, vice-chancellor of student affairs, said the protesting students were angry as they had not been allowed to register.
“The heart of the matter lies with those students who have been excluded because of financial or academic reasons. Some owe big sums of money, with no evidence they can pay us back. We’re constantly in talks with the SRC (leadership), but they mustn’t disturb students who are in class,” he said.
Tshabalala said they were working with the students individually and were taking the merits of each case into consideration to decide if the student should be allowed to stay. “We are trying to resolve this,” he said.
Late on Thursday, Tshabalala was still in talks with the SRC.
Earlier, members of the leadership had told the group of protesters that the SRC chairperson, general secretary and treasurer had been expelled for “vandalism and inciting students to embark on a mass demonstration”.
But Tshabalala said he was not aware of this.
“Expulsion is a serious matter. They may have said that to get the protesters fired up. We’re in talks with the SRC because this is getting serious. The violence is a serious matter and (Wednesday’s) petrol bomb could’ve killed someone. This must be resolved,” he said.
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