Long walk to petition the president

Fees Must Fall student activist Mcebo Dlamini yesterday embarked on a walk from Wits University to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to ask President Cyril Ramaphosa to release activists arrested during the student protests.

Mcebo wrote on his Facebook profile that he took the decision to write a formal letter to Ramaphosa “calling on him to exercise his prerogative powers and grant amnesty and pardon to all the fees must fall activists”.

The Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC) earlier this week also threatened revolt and promised to make the country ungovernable should the state continue to hunt down and prosecute student activists involved in the protests.

Last week, Higher Education and Training Minister Naledi Pandor revealed to the Democratic Alliance that institutions of higher learning suffered nearly R800 million in protest damage in the past three financial years.

On Monday, Fees Must Fall activist and Durban University of Technology student Bonginkosi Khanyile was convicted on charges of public violence‚ failing to comply with the police and possession of a dangerous weapon. Charges relate to the protests at Durban University of Technology (DUT). – Citizen reporter

Cyril Ramaphosa must pardon the protest activists

Picture: Tracy Lee Stark STILL FAR. Mcebo Dlamini is pictured near the Woodmead off-ramp, walking from Wits to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to submit a letter of demands to the presidency. He is asking for the release of students arrested during the #FeesMustFall movement.