Mcebo Dlamini, former Wits University SRC president and student leader, received a hero's welcome from his supporters after being released on bail yesterday. He vowed to continue the fight for ''free, decolonised education''.Dlamini's legal team, which included senior counsel Dali Mpofu and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, argued yesterday that it was not in the interest of justice to deny him bail, and that Dlamini was the subject of political persecution.In his ruling in the High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court, Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng granted Dlamini bail under strict conditions - that he does not disrupt university activity or interfere with the investigation and witnesses.The judge was scathing in his criticism of the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court's decision to not grant Dlamini bail last month, saying it was not "sound in law and fact".Dlamini, who faces five charges including public violence and theft, had spent almost a month in the Johannesburg Central Prison after he was arrested at his university residence.After his release yesterday the controversial student leader was met by a jubilant crowd of supporters, with some hoisting him on their shoulders, while others chanted "fees must fall".He told supporters that going to prison made him stronger and more focused on the fight for free education.Addressing the crowd from the roof of a car with a Nyala vehicle and police officers nearby, Dlamini said: "Comrades, I still have a voice. I have been in detention for almost 30 days."Every minute I spent there I took to think about the future of the black child," he said.He said being in jail was like "undergoing initiation "."I went in as a boy and came out a man," he said.Addressing the question of his experience in prison, he said: "I know some of you want to know how was Sun City (the nickname for Johannesburg Central Prison). Sun City was fine. The rule of prison is: What happens in Sun City stays in Sun City." Dlamini said he and other student leaders would be demanding a meeting with Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib for two sittings of final-year examinations. He said university's insistence that students could apply for deferred exams was setting up black students for failure.Wits University spokesman Shirona Patel said yesterday the insitution's position on examinations taking place during the scheduled period would not change, and that students could apply for deferred exams next month and in January...