NUST suspends 28 student over protests

NUST suspends 28 student over protests

• Expelled UZ student leaders in defiance

• Evictions at Poly, expulsions at UZ

• Court sets aside UZ fees hike

• UZ student leaders held in fees protest

• NUST students riot over fees hike

• Fidelis Mhashu: Fees hike latest blow to Zimbabwe education

• Brilliant Mhlanga: Slap Nyagura with travel restrictions

• UZ students urge sanctions against Nyagura

• Bush turns screws on Mugabe with sanctions

• Tawanda Hondora: Zim sanctions, are they political or economic

• Khanyisela Moyo: US sanctions futile, misguided and deceitful

• Dr Alex T Magaisa: On sanctions, Mugabe and the economy

• Nobuhle Nyathi: It's Zanu PF not sanctions, stupid!

• Tawanda Hondora: Sanctions undermine economy

• US travel ban will hit ministers' families

By Staff Reporter

THE National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has suspended 28 students following a series of demonstration which have seen 49 others being arrested.

The suspended 28 include five student leaders, according to the Student Solidarity Trust.

Meanwhile, the University of Zimbabwe has suspended another student, Wellington Zindove.

The Trust said in a statement: “University authorities at the National University of Science and Technology have suspended 28 students pending a hearing in the vice chancellor’s Board room at Nust on the 28th of
March."

“The 28 include Beloved Chiweshe (SRC president), Mzwandile Ndlovu (SRC S.G), Isaac Chimutashu (former SRC president), Benjamin Nyandoro (former SRC president) and Lawrence Mashungu (National Vice chairperson of the Zimbabwe Students Christian Movement), among others,” it added.

The students, said the Trust, were charged with an assortment of offences which include demonising and castigating the government and the institution’s vice chancellor as well as malicious injury to property.

“The students at the NUST have been in perpetual protest at the college since the semester started, at the massive fee increments by government which students have termed “Operation Murambashasha”, and have demonstrated at least 4 times this semester, including on the 13th of February,” the solidarity Trust added.

The first arrests were on February 13 in which police nabbed seven students. Two days later, 24 students were arrested and eight others were caged on 20 February. Police returned again on March 10, arresting 10 students.

However, the suspended students were charged for the February 15 demonstrations

Students at Zimbabwe's universities have been protesting sharp rises in tuition fees and evictions at university residences for students failing to pay off their accommodation costs.
JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS ARTICLE ON THE NEWZIMBABWE.COM FORUMS
newsdesk@newzimbabwe.com