Claims of 'apartheid tactics' on students at UKZN
A lecturer at UKZN and one of the organisers of this past Friday's lecturer picket says apartheid tactics are being used on students and staff.
Lecturers stood in solidarity with students at a picket where they demanded that police brutality stop and that government allocate more money to higher education.
Lecturer at UKZN in Pietermaritzburg, Dr Clint Le Bruyn, says his colleagues will continue to hold pickets to show their support for students in their fight for free higher education.
"Even as staff we are under surveillance. I mean even while holding classes I have been harassed by armed security personnel who wanted to listen in on what I am teaching," he said.
"As someone who lived during the apartheid years I can see that these are the exact same tactics that are being used except it is in a more explicit and dangerous way," Le Bruyn said.
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