"it is indeed a fine balancing and we must all participate, whether at national level, university administrations, or as student leaders, because it is the nature of balancing acts that if one falls all falls"Two days after this, the students of the university edged towards the police officers,which resulted in many being wounded.
In a report by Reuters, the police fired stun grenades, rubber bullets, and teargas at hundreds of student who marched through the university’s campus in Johannesburg, performing the “toyi-toyi” protest dance made popular during the struggle against the oppressive white rule.
Prohibitions for many black students has highlighted frustration amongst them and enduring inequalities in Africa’s most industrialized country more than two decades after the ended apartheid.
There have been similar protest in the past, just last year the students clashed with University authorities forcing the government to freeze fee increase and set up a commission to look into the education funding system.
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