Wits student leaders go on hunger strike amid protests over registration, accommodation
5 February 2019
About 40 security guards are monitoring a number of students taking part in a hunger strike at the University of Witwatersrand.
Members of the Wits student representative council embarked on the strike at 06:00 on Tuesday at Solomon Mahlangu House.
The strike follows a protest on Monday, where students disrupted classes and demonstrated on campus, calling on the university to listen to their demands relating to accommodation, registration fees and financial exclusion.
In a statement posted on Twitter, the body said it estimated that over 500 students would have no accommodation while 1 000 would be financially excluded and 3 000 would starve each month.