Update
MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The students at the South Cape TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) College campuses in Mossel Bay and George started with protest action on Tuesday, 18 February and continued on Wednesday, demanding answers about their bursary monies.
The protest in Mossel Bay was a peaceful one, outside the college in Essenhout Street in Heiderand. The students wanted answers as to why some students got their bursary money and others didn't.
Police at the George Campus had to disperse the students with stun guns after they started to throw trash about from the rubbish bins and enter the administration office complex.
One student at the George campus was injured on Tuesday when she tried to jump a fence.
According to Col Seppie September, the station commander of the Mossel Bay police, the police and Public Order Policing Unit (POPS) were on the scene in Mossel Bay and monitoring the situation.
On Tuesday the college closed early due to the marches and a few incidents of students trying to stop other students from going to class were reported. September told the Mossel Bay Advertiser that apart from those incidents the students were calm and everything was under control.
According to the head of the college in Mossel Bay, Carmen Moorcroft, some of the students already had left the campus on Wednesday and some were still sitting about.
The Mossel Bay campus discontinued classes on Wednesday. The principal of the college, Elsie Potgieter, was to address the students on Thursday morning, 20 February. The South Cape Colleges are part of the education system that combines education, training and skills development.
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