Police brutality on students condemned by unions

By Khanyisa Tabata
07 August 2009

Classes at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology have been suspended following student protest this week.

Classes were set to continue in the Bellville campus on Thursday and Friday but they were suspended when student protested outside the administration building.

37 students were arrested for public violence when they looted a cafeteria on the Cape Town campus and took everything.

Meanwhile the Workers Vanguard International League has condemned police brutality on the students.

“The concern is that there is a continuous line between the attacks around the world on working class and anti-working class as students are attacked by police at CPUT, we are calling for those students who were arrested to be realised soon”.

“The management needs to be taken into task for this kind of behaviour because we believe they are striking for what is right, the university can not increase the registration fee without proper consultation with all the relevant parties,” said Shaheem Mohammed Secretary Workers International Vanguard League.

In the early hours of this morning students from the Salt River residences marched to the Mowbray residences, and it is still unclear what they were going to do in there.