South African police fired stun grenades and arrested 31 students in clashes at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday, as countrywide protests demanding free tertiary education entered a third week.
Demonstrations this year and in 2015 over the cost of university education — prohibitive for many black students — have highlighted frustration at the inequalities that persist more than two decades after the 1994 end of white minority rule.
The current protests were triggered by a government recommendation that 2017 tuition fee increases be capped at 8 percent – above South Africa’s current inflation rate of 6 percent.
Critics have said the increase would further disadvantage black students already under-represented.
Several students hurled rocks at the main building of the university known as “Wits”, shattering windows, after they were prevented from entering by private security guards who retaliated by throwing rocks back at the students.
Source: Reuters
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