On Thursday, students clashed with private security guards, rubber bullets were fired to disperse the crowds. The campus shut down after a group of people gathered on the premises again on Friday.
Student clashed with private security on Thursday and rubber bullets were fired shortly afterwards.
The demonstrations descended into chaos this week, forcing the institution to shut down all its four campuses until further notice.
Students have been protesting over financial exclusion, lack of NSFAS funding and transport allowance among other issues.
Ongoing student protests in South Africa have once again highlighted various problems with higher education funding. They boil down to challenges of affordability and sustainability.
On Thursday, a small group of students staged demonstrations over registration and funding issues, which they claim have been raised since February.
They say the concessions on free education made after the fees must fall movement seemed not to have alleviated pressure on either students or academic staff.
Protests were carried about in Braamfontein earlier this month, which saw 35-year-old Mthokozisi Ntumba killed after being shot by police.
Nzimande said at least 10 institutions, including the University of Johannesburg and the University of KwaZulu-Natal were vandalised while some buildings were torched, with the damages costing more than R32 million.
Unrest hits South African universities every year over prohibitively expensive tuition fees that many argue shut poorer, often black, students out of higher education.
The policemen aged between 27- and 51-years old face charges of murder, attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice following Mthokozisi Ntumba's death.
On Thursday, the South African Federation of Trade Unions called for Nzimande's resignation after he likened recent countrywide student protests to a soapie.
On Tuesday, Nzimande expressed concern over the disruptions at tertiary institutions where students are calling for historic debt to be scrapped and for government to deliver on the promise of free education.
EFF head of Presidency and Member of Parliament, Sinawo Tambo, said that the debt had to be scrapped in order to allow students who had earned their qualifications to make meaningful contributions to society.
The officers from the Public Order Policing Unit appeared for the first time in court last week where they were formally charged with murder, attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice.
'Every year, it’s like a soapie now, 'The Bold and the Beautiful', every beginning of the year there is instability,' Minister Nzimande said.
Students said that they were not willing to back down and would be taking their fight for free higher education to the Union Buildings at a date yet to be announced.
