Lucas Buck
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Things not looking good at UWC at the moment.
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More UWC students arrested
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Things not looking good at UWC at the moment.
Mila
Honorary Master
They are now criminals, they are infringing on citizen's rights. Lock them up.
Dan C
Honorary Master
Bloody disgusting.
bekdik
Honorary Master
could a student who's exams were prejeduced by these actions claim liability from these people?
UWC gets ultimatum as violent protests set to continue
More at http://ewn.co.za/2015/11/12/UWC-gets-ultimatum-as-protests-continue-into-the-night
More at http://ewn.co.za/2015/11/12/UWC-gets-ultimatum-as-protests-continue-into-the-night
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
The University needs to respond to this ultimatum in the only logical way...
Tell the protesters that they either stop or they get arrested, charged and fsck their lives up permanently.
Tell the protesters that they either stop or they get arrested, charged and fsck their lives up permanently.
akescpt
Honorary Master
why attack other students? they basically now want everything for free. they just a bunch of gangsters by their latest actions. nothing to do with protesting and everything to do with public disorder. they want to create havoc but the authorities cant protect the university property. for tertiary students they come across a bit dumb.
if my kid was assaulted yesterday I would have been bevok. whole academic year messed up by a bunch of hooligans. saw pics of guns. these hooligans are not students.
if my kid was assaulted yesterday I would have been bevok. whole academic year messed up by a bunch of hooligans. saw pics of guns. these hooligans are not students.
Mephisto_Helix
Resident Postwhore
Reap what you sow ...... thousands of idiots were all for the students to protest, now it's getting to where a lot of people said it would get to.
dualmeister
Honorary Master
PS, why are they still protesting?
Sorry, but I stopped caring when the first stones were thrown.
Sorry, but I stopped caring when the first stones were thrown.
Security beefed up as UWC students appear in court
Picture and vid at http://ewn.co.za/2015/11/12/Security-beefed-up-as-UWC-students-appear-in-court
Picture and vid at http://ewn.co.za/2015/11/12/Security-beefed-up-as-UWC-students-appear-in-court
PICS: Cops use student as human shield
More at http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/pics-cops-use-student-as-human-shield-1.1944214#.VkRWEeKQ9hE
More at http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/pics-cops-use-student-as-human-shield-1.1944214#.VkRWEeKQ9hE
dualmeister
Honorary Master
Approves of this.
Bail for protesting UWC students
Tammy Petersen, News24
Cape Town - The 15 students arrested on Wednesday after clashes with police at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) must return to court on December 11.
Five of the accused arrested for assault took their place in front of the bench, while the remaining eight squeezed into the bench behind them.
Two more had to make do with standing during proceedings. Some of the accused waved at students who came to support them.
The state did not oppose bail, set at R3 000 each for all the accused, when they appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
However, the students have been prohibited from entering the campus with the court ordering they could only collect personal effects under escort. They must also reside at their alternative addresses.
Chaos erupted at the institution on Wednesday when protesters started fires across the campus, broke windows and set alight furniture before a stand-off with police.
The court ruled they may not intimidate students or staff. Also, if they wished to write their exams, arrangements had to be made with the university through their respective lawyers.
Tygerberg Hospital spokesperson Laticia Pienaar on Thursday confirmed three students were admitted on Wednesday night with "various injuries relating to the hand, head and face".
They have all since been discharged.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/bail-for-protesting-uwc-students-20151112
Tammy Petersen, News24
Cape Town - The 15 students arrested on Wednesday after clashes with police at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) must return to court on December 11.
Five of the accused arrested for assault took their place in front of the bench, while the remaining eight squeezed into the bench behind them.
Two more had to make do with standing during proceedings. Some of the accused waved at students who came to support them.
The state did not oppose bail, set at R3 000 each for all the accused, when they appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
However, the students have been prohibited from entering the campus with the court ordering they could only collect personal effects under escort. They must also reside at their alternative addresses.
Chaos erupted at the institution on Wednesday when protesters started fires across the campus, broke windows and set alight furniture before a stand-off with police.
The court ruled they may not intimidate students or staff. Also, if they wished to write their exams, arrangements had to be made with the university through their respective lawyers.
Tygerberg Hospital spokesperson Laticia Pienaar on Thursday confirmed three students were admitted on Wednesday night with "various injuries relating to the hand, head and face".
They have all since been discharged.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/bail-for-protesting-uwc-students-20151112
'Rogues' are in government, not universities - UWC parent
Jenna Etheridge, News24
Cape Town - “Rogue elements” were not at university campuses, but in government, a parent of a university student said on Thursday.
“As parents we want an independent inquiry about who started the violence on the campuses,” said Marcus Solomon, whose son was studying at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
“We hear so much about third force and rogue elements. I can tell you where they are sitting and where they are. They are not in universities. They are in government.”
He was addressing reporters following the appearance of 16 UWC students in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
They were arrested on Wednesday after clashes with police on campus. Three students were hospitalised for injuries to the hand, head and face.
Four security guards were also injured.
Protesters had started fires, broken windows and set alight furniture.
Journalists were told on Thursday the protests followed an e-mail by the UWC council chairperson Mthunzi Mdwaba, who they say called them names and ignored their demands.
One student said they were only violent, because officers and guards had shot at them.
Solomon said the protests made him "very emotional".
“I have been sitting in my place of work and I have been worrying about my son.”
He wanted to know why the police and “the worst elements of the security forces” were on campus.
“Over the years I have come to understand I am a parent of all the children in this country. When the rectors of the institutions call the police, who do they represent? Are they fathers and mothers of our children?” he asked.
The packed room of students answered with “no!”
Echoing the concerns of other parents and students, he challenged the media not to come out with “distorted reports”.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/rogues-are-in-government-not-universities-uwc-parent-20151112
Jenna Etheridge, News24
Cape Town - “Rogue elements” were not at university campuses, but in government, a parent of a university student said on Thursday.
“As parents we want an independent inquiry about who started the violence on the campuses,” said Marcus Solomon, whose son was studying at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
“We hear so much about third force and rogue elements. I can tell you where they are sitting and where they are. They are not in universities. They are in government.”
He was addressing reporters following the appearance of 16 UWC students in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
They were arrested on Wednesday after clashes with police on campus. Three students were hospitalised for injuries to the hand, head and face.
Four security guards were also injured.
Protesters had started fires, broken windows and set alight furniture.
Journalists were told on Thursday the protests followed an e-mail by the UWC council chairperson Mthunzi Mdwaba, who they say called them names and ignored their demands.
One student said they were only violent, because officers and guards had shot at them.
Solomon said the protests made him "very emotional".
“I have been sitting in my place of work and I have been worrying about my son.”
He wanted to know why the police and “the worst elements of the security forces” were on campus.
“Over the years I have come to understand I am a parent of all the children in this country. When the rectors of the institutions call the police, who do they represent? Are they fathers and mothers of our children?” he asked.
The packed room of students answered with “no!”
Echoing the concerns of other parents and students, he challenged the media not to come out with “distorted reports”.
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/rogues-are-in-government-not-universities-uwc-parent-20151112
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Someone has loosed to wolves on the chickens, whoever shall pull them back again?
Lucas Buck
Executive Member
The majority of students who want to complete their studies...d1ckhead. These guys disrupted exams and vandalised the campus yet they're claiming to be victims.
UWC a 'prisoner of war camp' - student
Jenna Etheridge, News24
Cape Town - University of the Western Cape (UWC) students spoke out on Thursday about their trauma following clashes with police and their attempts to resolve an impasse.
Kamva Rubulana compared the UWC of the last two weeks to “a prisoner of war camp”.
He believed the violence that played out on campus on Wednesday would never have happened if management and students had worked towards speaking “as one voice”.
“Us, as this so-called born-free generation, have been labelled 'the lost generation'. It hurts me when this lost generation is trying to find their direction and they are getting called names and all ridiculous manner of things.”
“What must these people do now? Must they wander for 40 years in the desert?”
Addressing a media briefing in Bellville, he rubbished claims students were “stupid” or trying to worm their way out of writing exams.
“Do you think these peopl ... are so afraid or want to avoid exams so badly they are willing to do anything? [Which] smart people wanting to go to university to get a degree would not want to write exams? Hence the saying, 'common sense is not so common'.”
Rubulana said they had tried to be intellectual, but were met with a “military voice”.
“If you are black and still speaking properly, you will never get listened to. But, once you resort to other tactics, you very quickly get listened to. What must we do?”
Final year student Luxolo Billie said the violence on Wednesday was “very unfortunate” and they were not hooligans.
“The only time we were violent is because black securities and police shot at us.”
Fellow student Palesa Mcophela believed police used more violence at UWC than at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
She said students “were teargassed in their rooms and police kicked down their doors”.
One student was in Tygerberg Hospital after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet, she said, adding a neurologist would have to be consulted.
Sabelo Skenjana said he spoke for the collective when he said he had never before been so afraid.
“It’s the type of fear whereby when you drop the soap in the shower, just that bang makes you want to run away. That is trauma.”
He said people asked for transformation at universities and the youth delivered.
“Students are transformers. We are not going to stop.”
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/uwc-a-prisoner-of-war-camp-student-20151112
Jenna Etheridge, News24
Cape Town - University of the Western Cape (UWC) students spoke out on Thursday about their trauma following clashes with police and their attempts to resolve an impasse.
Kamva Rubulana compared the UWC of the last two weeks to “a prisoner of war camp”.
He believed the violence that played out on campus on Wednesday would never have happened if management and students had worked towards speaking “as one voice”.
“Us, as this so-called born-free generation, have been labelled 'the lost generation'. It hurts me when this lost generation is trying to find their direction and they are getting called names and all ridiculous manner of things.”
“What must these people do now? Must they wander for 40 years in the desert?”
Addressing a media briefing in Bellville, he rubbished claims students were “stupid” or trying to worm their way out of writing exams.
“Do you think these peopl ... are so afraid or want to avoid exams so badly they are willing to do anything? [Which] smart people wanting to go to university to get a degree would not want to write exams? Hence the saying, 'common sense is not so common'.”
Rubulana said they had tried to be intellectual, but were met with a “military voice”.
“If you are black and still speaking properly, you will never get listened to. But, once you resort to other tactics, you very quickly get listened to. What must we do?”
Final year student Luxolo Billie said the violence on Wednesday was “very unfortunate” and they were not hooligans.
“The only time we were violent is because black securities and police shot at us.”
Fellow student Palesa Mcophela believed police used more violence at UWC than at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
She said students “were teargassed in their rooms and police kicked down their doors”.
One student was in Tygerberg Hospital after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet, she said, adding a neurologist would have to be consulted.
Sabelo Skenjana said he spoke for the collective when he said he had never before been so afraid.
“It’s the type of fear whereby when you drop the soap in the shower, just that bang makes you want to run away. That is trauma.”
He said people asked for transformation at universities and the youth delivered.
“Students are transformers. We are not going to stop.”
News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/uwc-a-prisoner-of-war-camp-student-20151112