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Wits University’s Great Hall in Braamfontein.
Wits University students are on hunger strike, protesting against financial exclusion due to historical debt.
Despite 95% of students registering successfully, returning students are demonstrating against financial barriers. The university requires students to have a debt of less than R10 000 or pay 50% of what they owe.
The students have been camping at the institutions’ SRC boardroom since last Friday with the hopes that the university will answer positively to their request for registration.
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Feziwe Ndwayana, a Masters’ student representing the University’s unregistered students says they want all students registered.
“We believe that there’s no students that shouldn’t be registered. The conversations that we’ve had with the SRC, we’ve all agreed that even if it could be 5 students that haven’t registered, that would still be an injustice.”
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