#FeesMustFall: Calm restored outside parliament
Updated | By Roi Simpson
Calm has returned to the precinct at Parliament following clashes between police and university students there.
The students, mostly from the University of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology had stormed the precinct and charged towards the steps of parliament.
Shortly afterwards police fired stun grenades at the demonstrators to disperse them.
They were later forced out again by public order police.
Once outside the angry students pelted the police with rubbish and other object and threw water at them.
They also chanted 'We want Blade', referring to Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
A short while ago, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande tried to address the protesting students but that was abandoned.
There are hundreds of students milling around the streets surrounding Parliament and a group of several hundred groups directly in front of the main gate to parliament.
Several students are vowing that they will stay the night but overall there's a general sense of a lack of direction and a lack of cohesion to plans for the evening. In fact, many students are now leaving the area.
If there is one common thought being expressed though, it is disbelief that today's South African Police Service used hand grenades on students inside the precinct of Parliament.
(File photo)
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