UCT student activist spends another night in jail
Cape Town - UCT student activist Masixole Mlandu will spend another night behind bars, as his bail application is set to enter a third day in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Friday.
The political science student faces a charge of malicious damage to property following stone throwing at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology's (CPUT) Cape Town campus, where a door was damaged during protests on October 24.
In previous brushes with the law relating to university matters, Mlandu was arrested in connection with violence at UCT.
He was expelled from UCT, but still remains involved with students there and is in negotiations with the university, which could see his expulsion reversed.
On Thursday, the courtroom was packed with students and workers who came to support Mlandu when he appeared for the CPUT matter.