Once again Wits University, where I work, has shown that it is teaching the younger generations entrusted to its care the lessons of fear, anger and violence.
In the face of a modest protest we shut down the university with a display of overwhelming force, pushing desperate students out into the streets of Braamfontein, where they must try by whatever means they can to make themselves heard. And where they are confronted by the violence of our brutal police...
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