[DEBATE] : UKZN strike - day 3 Westville

[Richard Pithouse]

More people than yesterday...people were guessing 1500 to 2000 but I don't know. I have a picture that shows a good lot of people marching behind a banner saying "Resign Makgoba, MANCO and Council'. Others said 'Down with Dasarath' and 'We Demand Academic Freedom'.

Again the ban on marching was defied and people marched onto management. They were met by a line of riot police on the stairs. At that point union officials crossed over the police line and from the stairs read out managements response - they've offered nothing. A group of stikers wanted to try and make a break through the police lines. The union officials didn't want that and there was a stand off for a while. Eventually people were persuaded to return to the quad and have a meeting there.

A plain clothes cop tried to take Helen Poonen's pictures on the grounds that their camera wasn't working.....He was told, in the technical language of struggle, to voetsek.

That meeting is going on now. I had to leave for an Abahlali meeting but Helen, Fazel or Princess can report back later.

There was still no TV but at least there were some print journalists there today. 

Richard


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