Protesters torched buildings and vehicles during violent protest action at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Westville campus in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Senate building and six vehicles outside the campus were set alight at about midnight.Lectures have been suspended until further notice.University spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said students were arrested following the attacks and added that “the damages run into a couple of millions of rands”.The torchings and unrest comes a year after protest action and fires on the campus caused an estimated R80-million in damages.Students are demanding the closure of the university until their demands are tabled at a meeting of the university council on September 19.They are also demanding that the university drops charges against protesting students who were arrested for public violence following ongoing unrest at the various campuses.“If we drop charges we will be defeating the ends of justice‚” Seshoka said.He said a list of 72 grievances and demands related to a number of issues including fees‚ security and student representation on the executive committee had been handed to the university.Student protests also turned violent at the Howard College and Pietermaritzburg campuses.Seshoka said “about 1000 students were singing and chanting and taking students out of lectures” at Howard College. “This resulted in a scuffle with security and students‚” he added.There were reports of students blockading roads in Pietermaritzburg on Monday night‚ but Seshoka noted that “there were no evidence that it was our students; nothing happened on campus”.KZN police spokesman Thulani Zwane said police fired rubber bullets at protesters who barricaded access to the UKZN Pietermaritzburg campus on Monday night.He said roads in Scottsville were closed off following the clashes between police and the protesters.On Tuesday‚ there was a strong police and security presence on all UKZN campuses. – TMG Digital/The Times ..