Durban – Students from the Durban University of Technology clashed with police for a second day in a row on Wednesday.
Police had to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing students who converged on the Coastlands Hotel in Peter Mokaba Road where an education stakeholders meeting was being held with senior university officials, student leaders and officials from the department of higher education and training.
Comment could not immediately be obtained from DUT spokesman Alan Khan.
According to the university’s campus radio station Radio DUT one female student had been arrested, but this could not immediately be verified.
Students are protesting for the elimination of fees.
On Wednesday, during clashes between students and police, a student who was using a slingshot was arrested by police. The university was shut down on Tuesday and remained shut on Wednesday.
African News Agency