The arrests come a week after a group of students demonstrated in the same area vandalising several shops and barricading roads with rocks and burning tyres.
Eyewitness News understands a group of students gathered at the university’s Prospect Street entrance this morning, where they planned to hold a memorial service for the University of Johannesburg student who was shot and killed by at a private residence at the weekend.
The police’s Sally de Beer says, “At about 1am this morning a group of UP students were arrested in terms of a contravention of the Regulation of Gathering Act and the contravention of the court order.”
The students are expected to appear in court later today.
