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Varsity protest leader arrested‚ cars torched in Cape Town

Protesters‚ including University of Cape Town Fees Must Fall leader Athabile Nonxuba‚ were arrested after clashes with police in the Cape Town suburb of Woodstock on Monday.

Nonxuba was arrested on Lower Main road after he was allegedly rallying protesters to march on UCT’s upper campus to disrupt academic activity.

He and three other people were arrested after police used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse protesters.

The arrests were followed by protests at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Bellville campus.

Protesters torched five cars‚ including three belonging to staff members and a lecturer and the other two belonging to private security.

Protesters also attacked the police joint operations command centre on the campus and were dispersed with rubber bullets and stun grenades.

Journalist Lynne Joy tweeted a photograph of one of the vehicles overturned and ablaze.

 

A tweet by motoring journalist‚ under the user name KevinJohnBrandt‚ showed two more of the gutted cars.

 

 

- TMG Digital

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