{"id":5535,"date":"2018-03-05T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:19:53","slug":"university-zululand-campus-stays-closed-violent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/03\/05\/university-zululand-campus-stays-closed-violent-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Zululand campus stays closed after violent protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Zululand&#8217;s KwaDlangezwa campus remains closed after violent protests resulted in the campus closing last Thursday. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unizulu\/posts\/2245551292125453\">statement<\/a> this afternoon, the university said that false WhatsApp messages had been circulating to say that students must return to campus on Tuesday March 6.<\/p>\n<p>The university reiterated that students would be told when they could return via its official communication channels. University staff however had been asked to return to campus today.<\/p>\n<p>Students were protesting over\u00a0delays to the payment of student meal allowances last week. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/kwazulu-natal\/kwadlangezwa-campus-shuts-down-after-violent-unizuluprotest-13559222\">IOL<\/a>, students armed with sticks and bottles disrupted lectures. During the protest action, two police vehicles were set alight, university buildings were torched. More than 30 people were arrested and they appeared in court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>KZN police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/2018-03-02-zululand-university-students-appear-in-court-over-torching-of-cop-cars\/\">told Times Live<\/a>\u00a0that 32 people had been arrested.\u00a0\u201cThey appeared in the Mthunzini Magistrate\u2019s Court in connection with public violence charges\u201a\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mainly NFSAS has failed to give the students their meal allowance for 2 months now and bookshop allowance. Kusazoshuba <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UniZuluprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UniZuluprotest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ESA0uEYYc9\">https:\/\/t.co\/ESA0uEYYc9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luyanda (@luyazama_myeni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luyazama_myeni\/status\/969208989874642946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">KwaDlangezwa campus shuts down after violent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UniZuluprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UniZuluprotest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2taeJlBhpc\">https:\/\/t.co\/2taeJlBhpc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Durban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Durban<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KZN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KZN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53Ik1q9LxQ\">pic.twitter.com\/53Ik1q9LxQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Durban KZN (@durban_kzn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/durban_kzn\/status\/969641762162528256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Zululand&#8217;s KwaDlangezwa campus remains closed after violent protests resulted in the campus closing last Thursday. In a statement this afternoon, the university said that false WhatsApp messages had been circulating to say that students must return to campus on Tuesday March 6. The university reiterated that students would be told when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[15,115,68,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}