South African student leader is injured in protest
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JOHANNESBURG- The student council at a leading South African university says a student leader was hit multiple times in the back by police rubber bullets during a protest for free education.
The council at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg said on Twitter that Shaeera Kalla, a former council head, was being treated for 13 rubber bullet wounds at a hospital Thursday.
The university says four students were injured by rubber bullets and two were hospitalized. It says police dispersed a group of protesters who had disrupted lectures and tore up test papers toward the end of a chemical engineering exam.
