Around 100 supporters, many of them Rhodes University academics and students, stood behind and around women displaced by looting and intimidation as they staged a protest outside the City Hall on Friday 30 October.
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The disjuncture between the way technocrats see things and the way politics plays out was very visible in the televised clash at Parliament between students and police this week.
“What experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
The looting of 300 shops in Grahamstown in the past three days has left more than 300 families destitute, with no place to go and with no means to earn a living. This was the tragic picture presented by a representative of the residents, currently under police protection in a safe zone, at a stakeholders' meeting convened Friday 23 October by city officials.
Students at Rhodes University in Grahamstown on Saturday 24 October started a clean-up of the university campus and the academic programme will resume after management acceded to their demands. These included implementing the moratorium on a 2016 fee increase announced by President Jacob Zuma this afternoon.
Students met late into the night on Wednesday 21 October to debate Rhodes University’s response to a memorandum outlining their demands. After a circular went out to staff and students last night announcing the resumption of academic activity, a group meeting at the intersection of Somerset and Prince Alfred streets resolved to continue the protest, as well as the campus shut-down.
Terrified foreign nationals are being moved to a safe zone after mobs looted shops in #Grahamstown today Wednesday 21 October, as police bring in reinforcements to provide 24-hour coverage and warn of a zero tolerance approach to lawlessness in the city.
Rhodes students have been urged to stay within the bounds of the University campus during their third day of protest in Grahamstown on Wednesday 21 October in the national #FeesMustFall campaign by tertiary students. Students are set to gather at the intersection of Somerset and New Streets from 5am today.
East Cape Midlands College students will resume classes Wednesday 21 October after they reached an agreement with their management in a meeting held on Tuesday 20 October at the City Hall.
Handfuls of students have gathered at the Prince Alfred Street/ Somerset Street entrance to the Rhodes University campus in Grahamstown throughout the morning since around 6am on Tuesday 20 October.