NEW: Police arrest 23 as students protest tuition fee-hike plan

South African students burnt tyres and threw up barricades at their Cape Town campus, leading to 23 arrests on Tuesday, as protests hit universities across the country over plans to hike tuition fees.

Students barricaded the entrances at University of Cape Town (UCT) and refused to leave, while their peers at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, where protests dubbed #FeesMustFall on Twitter began on Oct. 13, overturned vehicles driving into the campus, local media reported.


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