Angry Female Students Protest Topless Against Campus Rapes (Pictures)
Category: Campus News
Protests began on Monday at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South
Africa against incessant rape on the campus. Topless female students
with 'this is mine scrawled on their breasts' were seen among the
protesters demonstrating against the rape culture on a university
campus. The police have tried to disperse students using pepper spray
and stun guns.
The students started demonstrating after a list of suspected rapists on campus was leaked on social media on Sunday.
Many students, who were raped on campus said they have reported rapes to
the university as well as police, but that their complaints have been
ignored by campus authorities, the BBC reported.Also See: Kogi Polytechnic Students Go Wild, Burn Down Dangote Trucks Over Death of Colleague (Photos)
Students are demanding the university suspend 11 alleged rapists on
campus who were listed on the leaked list on social media and change its
policies on how rape victims are treated.
On Tuesday afternoon female students danced topless with some writing
'this is mine' on their breasts to show only they can decide to do with
their bodies.
On Wednesday, more than 200 students were attacked with rubber bullets
and pepper spray and stun grenades by police officers who were trying to
disperse the crowd even after the vice chancellor of the University had
begged the police to stop attacking his students.
Eastern Cape police arrested five students during the protest . They
were later released without bail and are due to re-appear on charges of
public violence in July.
According to Naledi Mashishi of the Students Representative Council,
five students were arrested and one hospitalised after police fired stun
grenades and rubber bullets at them.
Members of the Students Representative Council said they will only
stop if they are assured "no protester will face disciplinary action or
be penalized for participating in the protests”.
University lecturers have also joined in the demonstration.
National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union told Eyewitness
News : “We decided to join the strike of the students because of the
brutality of the police.
"We can’t watch our children being treated the way they were yesterday; so we took a decision that it’s too much now."
The protests are now being wound down as university staff agree to set up a task force to research the allegations.
Lectures are due to resume next Monday.
According to statistics released, South Africa has the highest number of rapes in the world.
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