source: Highway Mail
actor1: Protesters (South Africa)
actor2: Police Forces of South Africa (1994-)
location: Pinetown
notes: On 19 March 2021, students gathered in an university campus in Pinetown (eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal) in support of free decolonized education and against their financial exclusion from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and historical debt. The police used tear gas to disperse the group and an unidentified number of students were injured. Several demonstrations regarding student's financial exclusion were registered across the country since 9 March 2021 and a national university shutdown was announced by the South African Union of Students (SAUS) on 14 March 2021. [size=no report]