MON-THUR // 10:30AM -8:00PM FRI-SAT // 10:30AM – 9:00PM 1401 ST. LOUIS AVE. ST. LOUIS, MO 63106 Do you think we have what it takes to be named “Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America”? We were featured on the Travel Channel show this summer. Check out the link below for all the details and to find out if we won…This is part two of a photo essay from a first-year University of Cape Town student by the name of Raz. Following the recent weeks of deserted campuses, several spates of violence have occurred on campuses across the country. Students from CPUT face assault charges for allegedly burning a building with two private security officers inside. A student from TUT was admitted to hospital after he was shot in the leg with live ammunition. Stores were looted and a priest brutalised with rubber bullets in a drive-by during Wits’ protests. At UCT, a private security officer was hospitalised after a brick was dropped on his head from above.
There’s been an overarching climate of tension recently. It seems like a flashpoint has been looming. On Wednesday, various groups were granted permission to march and picket outside of Parliament in Cape Town, during Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s mid-term budget policy statement. UCT worker and academic unions began at 9AM, followed by the DA at 10AM. Finally, student protesters under #FeesMustFall were given permission to picket from 1PM until 3PM. The union picket was quiet. This was followed by the DA arriving in blue uniforms on blue trucks. DA leader Mmusi Maimane and others delivered speeches criticising the ANC, then left. Maimane criticised recent student action, saying “Fellow South Africans, it is not right to burn our universities and public properties.” This stance from the DA was not unanticipated by the protest groups. Some individuals wore slogans such as “FUCK DA.” Students from UCT, UWC, CPUT and Stellenbosch began to gather outside Parliament around 12PM, singing and dancing in small groups throughout St. Johns Street and Plein Street.
Academics, parents and other stakeholders were also present in the group when a memorandum was handed to Gordhan prior to his speech. All was calm, with relatively civil interaction between police and protesters. But as 3PM approached, both sides began to get increasingly tense. The first grenades rang out on St. Johns street a few minutes after 3PM, after protesters allegedly threw a burning cardboard coffin adorned with an image of Blade Nzimande towards the row of police officers in front of the statue of Louis Botha. Protesters began dispersing down Roeland and Plein towards Spin Street, where more grenades were detonated and water cannons were used, ambushing fleeing protesters. Grenades were detonated both behind and in front of the throng of protesters on Plein, who began breaking bricks to throw in response. After a protester was hit in the head with a brick during an altercation with a bystander, the vast majority of the crowd successfully dissuaded the individuals with bricks in hand from lobbing them.
Police chased protesters through the streets and continued to use stun grenades, water cannons and make arrests. A video shows a Hippo with students on top accelerate into the middle of Roeland and then stop sharply, dislodging a student from the roof in front of the wheels, then almost driving over the student. Protesters fled further from Parliament, with images emerging of a shattered McDonald’s window and other minor damage to several establishments towards the centre of town. During his speech, Gordhan announced that a total of 1.5 percent of the next term’s budget would be allocated to education, with a greater increase in NSFAS [National Student Financial Aid Scheme] coffers, the organisation that provides bursaries. Universities reiterated that people from households that earn under R600,000 per annum would not be subject to Nzimande’s suggested 8 percent fee increase. However, protest groups such as #FeesMustFall continue to state that this is not enough: their demand for “free, decolonised, afrocentric, socialist and intersectional” education has still not been met.
Two days after the violence at Parliament, there is much uncertainty about the future. Government has been largely silent about the topic of free education, but after the scenes at Parliament echoing 2015, it’s yet to be seen whether it will remain that way. Michael Brown grand jury decision coverage Looting at Toys R Us at Florissant and 270, @JesseBogan reports. by Valerie Schremp Hahn via twitter Toys r us getting looted north of #ferguson near 270 by Jesse Bogan via twitter by Lambert-STL Airport via twitter Owner of Ferusin Mkt stands in wreckage of his stire vine.co/v/O1XlODJtUrh by paul hampel via twitter /media/B3QziOmCEAAo-Bi.jpg by paul hampel via twitter #/media/B3QzeqmIUAAsbCz.jpg by David Carson via twitter vine.co/v/O1HBAYxLQWj by paul hampel via twitter St. Louis bread company in Tower Grove. /media/B3QzboFCIAE23JZ.jpg by Lilly A. Fowler via twitter Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., statement on grand jury decision talks about lessons police learned from first protests: : blunt.senate.gov/public/index.c… by Chuck Raasch via twitter
/media/B3Q0kMKIYAAnjNZ.jpg by Lilly A. Fowler via twitter Photos of Darren Wilson's police car after the shooting: postdispat.ch/1C8qSDs by stltoday via twitter #/media/B3Q2EvTCEAAzO9B.jpg by David Carson via twitter by Jen Mann via twitter /media/B3Q2jjjCIAEbXJW.jpg by Nicholas J.C. Pistor via twitter Door to Fed Ex in Tower Grove. Can't tell if anyone took anything. #/media/B3Q2gyHIAAIsLtd.jpg by Lilly A. Fowler via twitter /media/B3Q2c9uCEAERQ92.jpg by huy mach via twitter by Umar Lee via twitter Gunfire prevents airplane landings at Lambert bit.ly/1r75FFl by stltoday via twitter vine.co/v/O1HmBVplDTr by paul hampel via twitter Some smoke down on Grand. Sent a few protesters running. #stl #Ferguson by Nicholas J.C. Pistor via twitterby Nicholas J.C. Pistor via twitter by paul hampel via twitter Firefighters survey burned out Beauty World on S. Florissant in #Ferguson . Multiple stores on this block looted. /media/B3Q4ncIIQAARk21.jpg by Koran Addo via twitter
vine.co/v/O1HmYiPVMMx by paul hampel via twitter vine.co/v/O1HKvadrJq6 by paul hampel via twitter Fire Department arrives on S. Florissant in #Ferguson . /media/B3Q5UaLIEAEjkkL.jpg by Koran Addo via twitter Tomorrow's front page, first edition. #/media/B3Q5YSPCIAAQvo5.jpg by stltoday via twitter /media/B3Q5ofVCMAATS-y.jpg by paul hampel via twitter /media/B3Q6jiSCEAA0R5J.jpg by huy mach via twitter by Samantha Liss via twitter Dorian Johnson's GJ testimony largely follows what he told media, but contradicts physical evidence. #Ferguson by Stephen Deere via twitter Johnson told grand jury that Brown's hand never entered vehicle. He also said first shot hit Brown in chest. Volunteers help owner of Natalie's Cakes & More clean up after front windows smashed. #/media/B3Q63dYIMAA_X3k.jpg by Koran Addo via twitter by Joe Holleman via twitter @KoranAddo just told me of total lawlessness on South Florissant staring at Beauty World going north to near The Whistle Stop.
1/3 by Nancy Cambria via twitter @KoranAddo said many South Florissant business looted, including Beauty World and Natalie's Cakes. No police or fire presence. 2/3 by Nancy Cambria via twitter @KoranAddo saw much "casual looting" within that 2 block of stretch with people systematically scouring for things to take. 3/3 by Nancy Cambria via twitter Also @KoranAddo: man pulled out a pistol nearby him, made four shots in the air when police moved to disperse crowd at P-D w/ flash bangs by Nancy Cambria via twitter Darren Wilson told grand jury that fight at car justified use of force; postdispat.ch/1C8x2Ug #Ferguson by stltoday via twitter .@stlcountypd confirming Univeristy City police officer shot at Canton and Lamb. Condition u/k. Looking 4suspect. Cars racing toward police line, slowing and looping around again; people in cars yelling at police. #/media/B3Q_OYGCAAAr15t.jpg by joelcurrier via twitter Here are pictures of Darren Wilson's facial injuries that were presented to the grand jury in #Ferguson case.