Watch: #FeesMustFall protests turn violent in Cape Town [video]

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Watch: #FeesMustFall protests descend into chaos in Cape Town [video]

Police and demonstrators have clashed on the streets of Cape Town

Watch: #FeesMustFall protests turn violent in Cape Town [video]

Enca

A third wave of #FeesMustFall protests has been marred by violence, as the demonstration marched its way to Parliament.

The students are demanding the release of the fees commission report, which details funding of tertiary education. These protesters have made a slashing of tuition fees their main issue to raise, on the day Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba released his Mid Term Budget plans for South Africa.

Latest pictures, shared by ENCA, show students taking cover as running battles broke out with armed police forces. Students from both the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) are thought to be part of the large crowds.

What’s #FeesMustFall 3 all about?

  • Students are vowing to shut down both UCT and the CPUT universities, in a bid to force tuition fees down, rather than ‘freezing’ current costs
  • They’re also demanding all protest-related court cases against students be dropped.
  • Some higher education institutions have called on Zuma to release the report as they prepare their 2018 budgets.

Twitter has played it’s part in bringing the protests to the public eye. Photos of the situations on both campuses were shared to social media, before eNCA journalist Athi Mtongana captured footage of a student being arrested

Protests began earlier this morning, when large groups of demonstrators occupied various buildings across UCT. Exams were disrupted, the main library was forced to close down, and some bright spark set a fire hose off during drought season.

We’d love your opinion on this. Are these guys fighting for their rights, or disturbing the peace due to their actions? However you feel, let us know on our Facebook comments section.