Wits students protest over tuition fee increase

Students keep getting away with this type of violent behaviour during student protests and for as long as there are no serious consequences to such behaviour, it will carry on and get worse.
 
Humberto said:
Anyone who is disgruntled nowadays keeps getting away with this type of violent behaviour during protests and for as long as there are no serious consequences to such behaviour, it will carry on and get worse.
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Fixed for you...
 
Looks to me like the EFF has hijacked this cause and will be making a nuisance of themselves every time a small victory is achieved.
 
Lectures disrupted at Wits

JOHANNESBURG – Workers and and a few students at Wits University are disrupting classes at the Braamfontein Campus on the first day of resumed academic activity by calling on all students to support workers’ struggles.

The handful of students and workers are demonstrating against outsourcing at the institution.

They're not happy with the intervention agreed to by university management, and the small group say they want Wits to remain closed.

At the moment, the group have disrupted second year mining engineering lectures as well as a first year biology and physics lecture.

They basically went into the lecture rooms and banged on the desks until lecturers abandoned the classes.

They’re telling other students to join their protest or to go home.

They say they want the institution to be closed until the outsourcing matter is put to rest.

They’re not happy with the interventions proposed by Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib, who said they would look into the financial viability of hiring the workers permanently.
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More at http://ewn.co.za/2015/10/28/Class-disruptions-on-first-day-back-for-Witsies
 
Nokkie said:
"They are not happy" But yet "confused" Someone please explain this...
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They are not happy because exams were not cancelled and are confused as they were promised that rioting would ensure their exams would be cancelled and they would be passed automatically.
 
ellyally said:
They are not happy because exams were not cancelled and are confused as they were promised that rioting would ensure their exams would be cancelled and they would be passed automatically.
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thanks - I like the term "passed automatically" it all makes sense now.
 
Lucas Buck said:
Looks to me like the EFF has hijacked this cause and will be making a nuisance of themselves every time a small victory is achieved.
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I'm inclined to agree with this but its probably random members of the EFF. Its not like the Wits EFF to sanction something like this. They have their limits too.
 
SammyD said:
I haven't seen any poop. Or heard anything about it.
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Student phoned 702 earlier... just what I heard her say, she couldn't get in, and they were throwing faeces. Haven't heard or seen anything else on it
 
ellyally said:
They are not happy because exams were not cancelled and are confused as they were promised that rioting would ensure their exams would be cancelled and they would be passed automatically.
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The level of stupidity among the students greatly concerns me, it really means that this country has no future.

I can sympathise with the fees debate, it is an issue. But some of the hair-brained ideas on how to resolve this, as well as some other issues that are now being dragged in are just beyond moronic.
 
Anyway. Apart from the concrete bins lying around and a few cracked windows, campus seems to be back to normal.

Edit: Oh and the news van camped out outside the Senate House. I smell major FOMO
 
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