News24 reports that police fired rubber bullets and used a water cannon on female University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) workers who had stripped to their underwear in a protest on Tuesday.  

The workers were protesting outside the Great Hal and were demanding that police stop shooting at the students.  There have been several clashes between protesters and police that have ended with police using rubber bullets, teargas and water cannon.  Students earlier gathered at the foot of the steps to the building and lobbed projectiles.  On Monday, some protesters ran rampage in the streets of Braamfontein. They started fires, burnt a bus, and looted shops.

• Read this report by Lizeka Tandwa and Iavan Pijoos in full at News24
• See too, Students hold UWC staffer hostage, at News24
• And also, Two guards locked in burning building at CPUT, at News24

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