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Four police officers arrested for the killing of Mthokozisi Ntumba
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said that the four were police officers from the public order policing unit.
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Police use water cannons to disperse protesting students in Braamfontein
The situation remains tense, with police chasing protesting students through the streets of Braamfontein.
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TUT students won’t take part in national shutdown
Several institutions across the country will remain closed on Monday as students take their demands to the streets.
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Wits: Lectures to resume online today despite planned national shutdown
They want historic debt to be cleared and that universities not increase fees this year.
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ANALYSIS: A look at how the net has tightened on the right to protest in SA
Instead of being a democratic right and legitimate form of expression, protests have increasingly been framed as threats to national security.
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Wits SRC treasurer Kanakana Mudzanani left puzzled by sudden suspension
Three students have been charged by Wits management for breaching COVID-19 regulations in February. The university said none of it was related to this week's protests in Braamfontein.
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Nzimande has until 5 pm today to respond to students or face shutdown
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has until 5 pm to reach the 15 demands made by protesting students or face the threat of a national shutdown of institutions from Monday next week.
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Protesting Wits students vow to bring Joburg to a standstill
Wits SRC president Mpendulo Mfeka said they would be joined by students from other institutions and their lawyers were working on an application for direct access to the Constitutional Court to demand that government be forced to provide free and decolonised education.
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Humble & respectful Mthokozisi Ntumba had a lot to offer SA – family
Ntumba was shot dead, allegedly by police officers who opened fire with rubber bullets during a protest by Wits students in Braamfontein on Wednesday.
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South Africans must stand against police brutality - Wits lecturer
The academics joined protesting students at the Johannesburg Central Police Station, where they laid an official complaint against police brutality.
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We will not abandon our students, we'll fund their education - Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed his government will not abandon students protesting against exclusion on the basis of historical debt
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Students picket at Cape Central Police Station in solidarity with Wits students
The protesters who wore black said that this was a sad day for students.
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Govt will ensure demands are met, ANC's Magashule tells protesting Wits students
The students marched to Luthuli House to deliver a memorandum of demands, they also demonstrated outside the Johannesburg Central Police Station earlier.
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'We want answers and we expect justice' - Mthokozisi Ntumba's family
Mthokozisi Ntumba was shot dead allegedly at the hands of police using rubber bullets while they were responding to Wits student's protesting in Braamfontein on Wednesday.
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'There was overreach by the police' - Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the National House of Traditional Leaders on 11 March 2021 where he extended his condolences to the family of Mthokozisi Ntumba after he was fatally shot during student protests in Braamfontein. #AsinamaliProtest #WitsProtest #FeesMustFall #MthokozisiNtumba
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Wits student protest did not warrant that type of police response - Ramaphosa
Mthokozisi Ntumba, a 35-year-old father of four, was shot during a protest by Wits University students in Braamfontein on Wednesday.
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‘There were some images we weren’t ready to see’ - Ntumba’s cousin
Sthembiso Jwara, the cousin of Mthokozisi Ntumba, speaks about the character of his cousin after Police Minister Bheki Cele visited the family to pay his respects on 11 March 2021. Ntumba was shot dead in Braamfontein during a student protest. #WitsProtest #MthokozisiNtumba #PoliceBrutality #FeesMustFall
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Wits academics lay police brutality complaint after student protest killing
Some Wits University academics have come to show their solidarity with students against police brutality following yesterday’s deadly demonstrations that claimed the life of 35-year-old Mthokozisi Ntumba.
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CT students protest against 'state violence' after Ntumba's death
Protest against police brutality have reached Cape Town after one fatality during the Wits University protest
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Wits VC Vilakazi appeals for calm, says student debt at R1 billion
Vilakazi and his team are under pressure to reach an agreement with the SRC that's demanding that all students with outstanding debt be allowed to register for the new academic year.
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‘Defending police criticism is slowly becoming difficult’ - Bheki Cele
Police minister Bheki Cele visited the family home of Mthokozisi Ntumba on 11 March 2021 to pay his respects after Ntumba was shot dead during a student protest in Braamfontein. Students have been protesting against financial exclusion in universities. #WitsProtest #PoliceBrutality #BhekiCele #FeeMustFall
