UKZN students spend holiday in jail
The two students arrested after campus riots will spend their tenth night behind bars after their bail application was postponed.
|||The two University of KwaZulu-Natal students arrested after campus riots will spend their tenth night behind bars on Thursday night after their bail application was postponed until Friday.
On Wednesday, a Pinetown magistrate ruled that court proceedings would be held in camera, barring the media and public from court.
Only the parents of the accused were allowed in the courtroom.
About 20 UKZN student representative council (SRC) members and others were prevented from entering the court grounds and protested outside.
An SRC member, who asked not to be named, said: “The gate security said no one comes in.
“Then they said five people can come in and then they said only family members could come in.”
Lukhanyo Mtshingana and Luwazi Magwaza were arrested last Monday and first appeared in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday.
They were charged with public violence for allegedly burning two motor vehicles, setting alight a building, and causing damage to other vehicles including those belonging to law enforcement officers.
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