IN PICTURES: Wits students intensify protest over financial exclusion, accommodation
Wits students have intensified their protest against what they claim to be financial exclusion due to historical debt, as well as a lack of funding and accommodation.
The students returned to the streets of Braamfontein on Friday on what was day three of the protest.
Students forced stores on Jorissen Street to close their doors, accusing the businesses of adding to the economic woes of students by charging them exorbitant fees for food and accommodation.
The group consist of various students and political organisations.
Wits University confirmed it issued suspension orders to “disruptors” on Thursday for transgressing the university’s rules during the protest.
The university added that attempts to engage the SRC failed to yield any results.
Students force a Steers on the corner of Jorissen and Biccard Street to close with customers still inside. A student can be heard saying: “We are serious, we are in charge here”. #WitsShutDown pic.twitter.com/xuxd8xFhRD
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) March 3, 2023
Wits University confirmed it issued suspension orders to ‘disruptors’ on Thursday for transgressing the university’s rules during the #WitsShutdown protest. The university says attempts to engage the SRC have yielded no results
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) March 3, 2023
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WATCH: Marchers try to force the gate on Yale Road open. A stone’s thrown at security personnel who say they can’t allow marchers in because they can’t verify their identities, but students claim the biometric system at the gate has been disabled to deny them entry #WitsShutdown pic.twitter.com/BR58IAUYPz
— Jacaranda News (@JacaNews) March 3, 2023
