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Watch: Woman protesters go bare chest to protest in South Africa

Updated on: 05 October,2016 08:04 PM IST  | 
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The cost of university education for many black students, has become a symbol of the inequalities in South Africa resulting in students going topless to protest against it

Watch: Woman protesters go bare chest to protest in South Africa

The cost of university education for many black students, has become a symbol of the inequalities in South Africa resulting in students going topless to protest against it.


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The clash between police and students happened in Wits and Cape Town universities that forced the Uni to suspend classes on Wednesday for the second time in less than a month.

Protests first erupted last year, then eased off as the government froze fee increases after a a commission was set up to look into the education funding system.

Police on Tuesday fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas after students calling for free education at the Johannesburg campus threw stones at police and flipped one vehicle. The university said some protesters had earlier pulled lecturers out of their offices as they prepared to restart classes after the shutdown called on September 20.

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