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A violent clash between the police and prospective students broke out at the Durban University of Technology broke out on Wednesday, after a fake message invited students to register for the academic year.

The protest came after a number of students, all of whom had failed to properly register online for the 2021 academic year, made their way to the Steve Biko campus on Tuesday.

DUT said that the influx of students who gathered at the campus this week arrived because of the fake social media post. “It does appear that there were a number of unauthorised social media posts inviting all applicants to come to the campuses today, 6 April 2021. Many potential applicants arrived at our gates, expecting to be registered. These persons were not invited by the university to register, nor given any indication that they were to arrive at the university,” DUT said in a statement on Tuesday.

After taking the Covid-19 health and safety regulations into account, DUT said that they have suspended all on-campus support for online registration and are not sure whether it will return.

 

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