Women students recall how they were beaten up at rugby match
Bloemfontein - Several women - black and white - have told News24 how they were beaten up at a Varsity Cup rugby match in Bloemfontein on Monday evening.
One of the assaults was captured on video.
A drama and theatre arts student at the University of the Free State, Ju-Mari Pretorius, said she was hit over the head with a megaphone, when she tried to stop protesters from entering the gates of the Varsity Cup match.
Pretorius who attended Oranje Meisie School in Bloemfontein said: “One of the protesters hit me from behind, when I turned around to ask what he was doing, he knocked me into the ground with a megaphone.”
Apelele Mtamzeli, a post graduate at the university, told News24 that she was in a lot of pain after she was beaten up at the same event.