NEW: Student protests hit zenith at Parliament

Protests by university students against rising tertiary fees reached a watershed moment on Wednesday at Parliament in Cape Town when hundreds of students breached the precinct perimeter and were later pushed back by stun grenades and teargas.

University of Cape Town and Cape Peninsula University of Technology students gathered in their thousands at the gates of Parliament ahead of  Finance Minister Nhanhla Nene’s mid-term budget speech.


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