Fees Must Fall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile locked out of Union Buildings
21 August 2018
EFF student activist Bonginkosi Khanyile has been locked out of the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Khanyile travelled from Durban to Pretoria on Tuesday with his mattress to stage a sleep-out on the lawns of the Union Buildings. However, upon arrival, he found the gates at the entrance were locked.
The activist, accompanied by his mother Phumzile Khathini, and a "comrade" Philani Nzuza, had planned to sleep at the Union Buildings until President Cyril Ramaphosa's responded to his request for a presidential pardon for those arrested during the #FeesMustFall protests.
"I'm happy comrades because when I planned to come here in Pretoria, I actually planned this journey alone. I was seated, frustrated, thinking and re-thinking about my conviction. After seeing all that has happened around me, I said as a young person there is something I must do," Khanyile told his supporters outside the Union Buildings.