Let's get this straight - the police, not the students, are the main cause of campus violence
While the acting national police commissioner claims that “criminality has infiltrated” the student protests, it is indeed the police who are mostly the criminals. He should resign at once. He presides over a militarised force that is provoking a dangerous situation. Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane told a media briefing in Pretoria that they had found petrol bombs and containers of petrol on or near campuses and police believed that there was “infiltration of people with an agenda of their own”. Hmmm. I’d say that petrol and stones are the only weapons that the students have, because no-one in government or university management wants to listen to them or respond to their demands – except with guns and violence.Let’s just take some examples: yesterday five cops AT CLOSE RANGE shot student leader and former Wits SRC president Shaeera Kalla 13 TIMES IN THE BACK while she had her HANDS IN THE AIR. Her earlier attempts to negotiate with the cops were refused, who instead fired a ...
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