adminJohannesburg — Security guards slapped, kicked and pepper sprayed students who were protesting on the Kingsway campus of the University of Johannesburg yesterday.
A News24 reporter on the scene said workers were camping outside the gates of the campus in a peaceful protest against outsourcing, but the trouble began when students inside the campus wanted to go outside.
A group of between 40 and 50 students pushed against the gate. A security guard, trying to stop them, slapped a woman in the face.
Students reacted angrily and the situation got even more out of control.
Security guards were seen kicking students, slapping them, beating them with sticks and pepper-spraying them.
A woman student was crying hysterically as her friend held a bottle of water against her head for her. — Sapa
Online Reporter