AfriForum Youth calls on the University of the Free State\u2019s management to take strict action against students who are guilty of violent protest action. The youth organisation learned from its members on this campus that a group of violent protesters pelted buildings on campus with stones while students were busy with academic proceedings inside the buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe University of the Free State\u2019s management team must take serious disciplinary action against the guilty students and a case of property damage should be made for vandalizing the buildings,\u201d says Ren\u00e9 van der Vyver, spokesperson for AfriForum Youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AfriForum Youth members notified the organisation that they feel unsafe on campus. \u201cThis is unacceptable and as a youth organisation we will be in touch with the university to ensure that academic proceedings on campus are considered more important than violent political actions,\u201d adds Van der Vyver. \u201cIt is not sustainable to suspend classes on campuses every time protests turn violent. Innocent students are being punished because of the criminal actions of a small group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were inside the agricultural building when we heard the rumbling. We were told to lock ourselves in before they got to us \u2013 we were terribly scared,\u201d says a second-year agriculture student.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AfriForum Youth calls on the University of the Free State\u2019s management to take strict action against students who are guilty of violent protest action. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[864,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afriforum-youth-media-statements","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":864,"label":"AfriForum Youth Media statements"},{"value":465,"label":"Media statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Skade-aan-landbougebou-1024x768.jpeg",1024,768,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/author\/chante-kelder\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":864,"name":"AfriForum Youth Media statements","slug":"afriforum-youth-media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":864,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":465,"count":62,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":864,"category_count":62,"category_description":"","cat_name":"AfriForum Youth Media statements","category_nicename":"afriforum-youth-media-statements","category_parent":465},{"term_id":465,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":465,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":465,"category_count":222,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Skade-aan-landbougebou.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9277,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}