17 students arrested at University of Pretoria‚ says AfriForum Youth
Seventeen students‚ four of whom are allegedly SRC members and supporters of the EFF‚ were arrested on Friday at the main entrance to the University of Pretoria (UP)‚ according to AfriForum Youth. This followed acts of vandalism and violent behaviour since Thursday‚ it said‚ blaming the violence on the EFF and SRC.(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=all"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));These are Tukkies students?Posted by Intelligence Bureau SA on Monday, February 22, 2016The arrests could not immediately be independently confirmed.Henrico Barnard‚ AfriForum Youth’s presidential candidate at Tuks‚ said it was deplorable that members of the SRC‚ who were supposed to be neutral and objective‚ had also been arrested because of these events.The SRC members who were arrested also made remarks about Afrikaans as language of instruction‚ he asserted. “The SRC is therefore not representative of all students on campus.”AfriForum Youth said it strived for the preservation of Afrikaans at UP‚ as well as the academic development of other languages‚ such as Sepedi...
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