Battle ground for police and protesting #FeesMustFall students – video

Protesting students continued with their plan to shut down WITS. Classes resumed and the demonstrators moved to disrupt classes.

Police moved in and arrested two students who were carrying sticks. Students could face suspension if they carried sticks or concealed their faces.

Wits violent student protest. Screen-grab: EWN YouTube video

After a few minutes, the students demanded access to the Great Hall to hold a meeting.
Private security did not budge trying to prevent the students from moving into the hall.

The students started pelting the security with stones and this led to a confrontation. Police moved in and fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and used a water cannon to dispel the protesters.

After a running battle with the police, the students were pushed out into the streets of Braamfontein, where they continued to block off roads.

Cars that wanted to pass were pelted with stones and rocks. Some of the students moved up to Jorrison Street and a bus that tried to pass was stoned. When the bus stopped, the students forced the driver and passengers off the bus and set it alight.

After the bus was torched, police continued to move through the streets of Braamfontein firing rubber bullets at the protesting students.

The students pelted one of the shops in Braamfontein with stones, leaving all the windows shattered. It appeared as though the students were looting the store. However, a handful of non-Wits students joined the demonstration and complicated the matter. The police brought in more reinforcement to curb the violence. The students continued to protest late into the night.

The students want the government to hear their voice and it is clear they will stop at nothing until government acknowledges their grievances. Until the government addresses the students, they will continue to burn down the city.

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Black South Africans have no reason to live in peace with whites’, says #FeesMustFall protester

It is an instruction and a warning to white students to join the university #FeesMustFall movement. A video of the #FeesMustFall protesters disrupting a UCT lecture shows a student warning the white students.

White students warned to join the #FeesMustFall movement - Photo: ANA

The protesters want the white students to stand in solidarity with the movement and to use their “privilege”. The white students needed to heed the warning and that the matter was not open for discussion. The black students are deadly serious about taking action against the whites who refuse to join their movement.

During the video, a student said that black South Africans have no reason to live in peace with the whites.

There is a responsibility with freedom of speech. The student should be arrested for inciting violence and racial hatred. The government should have a zero tolerance across the board, the public and private sectors against this abusive behavior.

Will the Human Rights Commission take action against the students who incite racial tension and violence? We can recall that Penny Sparrow was taken to task and paid a hefty price for her comments. Now that the video recording of the student calling on her “comrades” to spill blood is public, why is the student not banned from the university, is this fair?

Will the Democratic Alliance (DA) take action?

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WITS Protest - students burn buses

The protesting #FeesMustFall students are burning buses. While the emergency services, including the fire fighters and fire brigade vehicles try to extinguish the fire, the students are pelting them with stones.

One could ask if these are students who wish to be educated for free or criminals. Are they practicing their cunning criminal activities for the future.

It is absolutely despicable that students behave in a violent manner. What would they do if the emergency services refuse to enter a protest area and save them when they are hurt, will it be another protest against the emergency services.

The Fees Must Fall protest should never have been allowed to escalate into the chaos of today. Who will pay for the damages? No education will fix their attitude of disrespect.

President Jacob Zuma condemns the action and that is not enough. The African National Congress (ANC) promised FREE EDUCATION to all during their 2014 election campaign. Now the students want the ANC to deliver on their promises.

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Give Thanks To Our Protesting Students

Black students of South Africa, look at this photo carefully, focus on it, let your eyes adjust, let the warm glow of the ANC’s promises in the 2014 election embrace you. Do you have warm fuzziness yet?

Give Thanks To Our Protesting Students – Image – Menzi Solomon Shange

It felt so good didn’t it, as you voted for our liberating party on your voting ballot? The ANC had your back; they were going to ensure a free education! Moreover, here we are today…  First, we can’t thank our protesting students in SA enough for using the #feesmustfall movement to expose the truth! What truth you might ask? The truth about the source of all the frustration felt by millions of people in our country.

Our inept ANC Government made promises they did not want to keep. Those reading carefully will see that I said ‘did not want’ – which means they willfully avoided keeping this commitment. It appears to be due to lack of prioritization, lack of planning, lack of leadership, lack of funding due to extreme unfettered pilfering. Do the reasons matter? They lied to you while frivolously spending millions of Rands. Sickening!.

Therefore, we have unveiled the arch nemesis of free education in South Africa – the ANC, our own government.

Nevertheless, as our eyes adjust and focus on the old election sign that spread so many false hopes, thus will the eyes of our struggling students soon refocus on the root drive of their dashed hopes.
Clearly, the ANC have now helped give our youth the real clarity they need to make informed decisions, a decision that can be made without a higher education.

The students will soon realize that picking at the old tired tentacles of a long begotten colonialist era is a farce, and that the real truth resides in the three letters salient in the eleven letter word ‘colonialist’ that they mouth so readily as if it were planted there during hypnosis.

These letters are A, N, and C.

Do you have clarity now?

In the way, my son is a living part of me; the #feesmustfall is a living part of the #ancmustfall movement.

Mark my words, the student uprising is about to hit South African mainstream society like never seen before, an uprising borne of dashed hopes, and the emerging realization of the dangerous game the ANC have played with black lives.

Be afraid ANC, Be Very Afraid.

By Menzi Solomon Shange

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Is it Apartheid’s fault

We hear endless nauseating statements that black poverty, black deprivation, black oppression is the result of white oppression, apartheid, and land that has been stolen.

Nothing goes right for blacks, everything goes wrong, whether in New York’s Harlem, Zimbabwe’s Harare or South Africa’s Hope City, and it is the white man’s fault. It’s the consequences of slavery and exploitation, and persecution and “white supremacy”. Before the white man’s time, the rivers flowed with milk and honey; the cattle were fat, and the wheat turned into mealie meal all on its own.

Is it Apartheid’s fault – Image – Front National

“DECOLONISE!” Is the cry of the radical blacks? Our problem is whiteness.
In all modesty, I will ask only one question.

In the Caribbean is an island. It is the most populated stretch of land in the Caribbean, 10.6 million Blacks occupy 27,750 square kilometers of what we know as Haiti.

Haiti runs under extreme health hazards, epidemics, witchcraft, corruption, and fraud are worse than anywhere in the world.

Is it Apartheid’s fault – Image – Front National

The Haitian’s life expectancy is among the lowest recorded. Literacy is virtually non-existent. Poverty and hunger are extreme and common elements.


Haiti became an independent black state since January 1, 1804. That was 212 years ago, and it looks like a trash can after all those decades.

Is it Apartheid’s fault – Image – Front National

Now I would be grateful to know how the white man is to blame for the black man’s problems.
Read the original article by Daniel Lötter in Afrikaans on Front Nasionaal SA – blad
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