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SA students in violent rampage over owing Durban university R175-million…

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Original Post Date: 2008-02-04 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Adriana

Vice Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology, Roy du Preez, says outstanding debts of hundreds of students amount to R175 million.He says while ‘arrangements have been made with students who are prepared to pay off their loans”, the refuseniks have gone on a rampage through the campus on Monday February 4 2008 — forcing it to close for the rest of the week.

Police had to be called on to finally disperse the rampaging students.
The chaos was complete earlier today on the campus. Police later denied claims by students that they had used rubber bullets to disperse the hundreds of protesting students, but they used considerable ‘persuasion’ to get them to leave.

The protests have been ongoing since last week because of ‘student grievances’, which include registration fees, poor accommodation facilities and poor security on campus. Today they finally burst into out-and-out violence with no apparent end in sight:

Students’ Representative Council spokesman Mandla Shange said they were ‘disappointed with how management had responded to their demands last week.
“Nothing has been resolved. The management has said that only students who owe less than R1,000 can register, but we feel this is still unacceptable,” he said.
They were planning more protests until they got their way, he said.

University spokeswoman Nomonde Mbadi said however that they ‘could not roll over student debt any longer.’

“Since 2002, management has been acceding to these demands for roll-overs.
“This has become unsustainable. The total student debt at the university is R175-million. For the 2007 academic year, the outstanding student debt is R72-million,” she said.
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Source: http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/education/0,2172,163627,00.html