Mar 23, 2010 11:29 PM| By
A student, a police officer and a street vendor were seriously injured, and 62 students were arrested during a protest at the Durban University of Technology's Mansfield Road campus.
" We do not know if it was a rubber bullet or a stone that injured him " Jacob Zuma
About 5,000 students demanding an increase in the number of buses between campuses and better catering, lower cafeteria prices and access to DStv in residences, marched through the campus breaking windows, toppling rubbish bins, and stoning lecturers' cars.
"Police were forced to fire rubber bullets and water cannons because the students were on a terrible rampage," said police spokesman Superintendent Vincent Mdunge.
"They then stoned police vehicles."
He said a policeman and a street vendor were injured during the stone-throwing.
Netcare 911 spokesman Jeff Wicks said paramedics treated a student who had been struck in the face.
"We do not know if it was a rubber bullet or stone that injured him," Mdunge said.
The university was closed until today.
Lectures were expected to resume after a protest on Friday that started at the university's Pietermaritzburg campus and spread to Durban.
TimesLive
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