In the first violent show of anger by Zimbabweans at the withholding of the poll results, the students sang songs denouncing the regime and threw stones at the buildings.
“We want election results because we voted more than two weeks ago. Mugabe cannot be allowed to rule us by decree when we have voted him out. This just cannot be the case. We kicked out dictatorship out of this country in favour of a new leadership; our vote must count. said a student leader. This (demonstration) is a no’ to abnormal fees and slave grants. We want Mugabe to go now. We no longer recognise him.
Although university authorities said that they were still trying to quantify the damage that followed the demonstration, the campus tuckshop had its windows and doors broken and was looted by students.
Another student leader, who led the protests, vowed that the demonstrations would continue until Mugabe allowed the electoral body to announce the results.
Till that happens, there will be no classes at this campus. Mugabe must know that…we are prepared to die for democracy in this country. He should also stop sending his illiterate war veterans to harass our parents in the rural areas because we cannot be cowed by them into accepting him, he said.
NUST spokesperson Busani Bafana said: I can confirm that we had such a problem at the college today, but I am not in a position to quantify the damage at the moment. We are still checking on the damage, but I can tell you that as the university, we are following some leads.I also understand that police have picked up some of those that were involved in the violence.
Police sources in the city also revealed they had arrested some students and were still following leads into who had instigated the protest.
We have arrested five students whom we suspect to have been involved in the NUST skirmishes. So far, we have been told that the Students Representative Council (SRC) led the riots, said a police source.
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