Durban students arrested for illegal protest

Four protesting students were arrested last Monday following clashes with police and security guards at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Durban campus, as anger over accommodation again brought the institution to a standstill, writes Kevin Lancaster for The Mercury.

Police spokesperson Thulani Zwane said that the four were arrested for contravening a court interdict the university secured on 12 March, prohibiting protests on campus. The illegal protest began before 9am, when students called non-protesting students out of lectures. Waving sticks, planks and poles, they marched through faculty buildings until all lectures had ceased.

President of the Student Representative Council Sandile Ngcobo said that the protest would continue until their agreed accommodation at the Royal Hotel, in central Durban, was made available. “We are tired of the university’s empty promises,” said Ngcobo.
Full report on the Independent Online site