‘Our sacrifices were in vain’ - Mcebo Dlamini slams ANC, Malema amid student protests
Former student
leader and Fees Must Fall activist Mcebo Dlamini says he’s hurt by the scenes
that unfolded at Wits University on Wednesday.
The ongoing student protests at the university escalated to the point where a 35-year-old man was allegedly shot by police in Braamfontein.
The protests ignited last week when some students failed to register due to outstanding fees.
While tyres were burning and rocks blockaded the busy Braamfontein street, law enforcement unloaded numerous roads of rubber bullets on students who scattered and took refuge in nearby shops and buildings.
The relentless students returned to the streets at peak time, causing traffic to be backed up.
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Dlamini says the visuals brought back scars of the trauma he experienced during the Fees Must Fall protests in 2015 and 2016.
“I am angry. I am hurt because it then says to us the generation of Fees Must Fall, our sacrifices were in vain, everything that we fought for. We sacrificed our careers, we were arrested, we couldn’t work where we would like to work today because we have criminal records. We did all that because we were saying our brothers and sisters at home shouldn’t suffer the same fate that we have suffered,” Dlamini says.
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“Today my classmates of LLB (Law) were representing the students at Hillbrow Magistrate’s Court. We were represented by Dali (Mpofu) in 2015 but we are representing them now so, there’s a problem.”
