{"id":161898,"date":"2015-10-23T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161898"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:38:15","slug":"president-jacob-zuma-sanctions-a-zero-percent-increase-in-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=161898","title":{"rendered":"President Jacob Zuma sanctions a zero percent increase in fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South African President, Jacob Zumah has revealed there will be no increase in university tuition fees for 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have agreed that there should be a zero increase,&#8221; Zuma said in a televised address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His address comes after a meeting with student leaders and university officials following a nationwide protest against increased fees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of students had travelled from around Pretoria and Johannesburg to attend the demonstration, which gradually degenerated into violent scenes at a fence erected on the south lawn separating the students from the Union Buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protesters had demanded that Zuma speak to them outside the Union Buildings, however Zuma elected to speak to the nation <a style=\"text-decoration:none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/modafinil\/\">http:\/\/premier-pharmacy.com\/product\/modafinil\/<\/a> from inside the buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was unclear whether he would still address the protesters. Students who had come to protest peacefully were overshadowed by a minority of students at the fence, many of them wearing T-shirts bearing the branding of the Economic Freedom Fighters, the SA Students Congress, ANC Youth League, and the Pan Africanist Movement of Azania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those at the front of fence antagonized riot police by tearing down the fence, and throwing stones, bricks and other objects at police and even media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police used stun grenades, tear gas and a water cannon to disperse some of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: News24.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African President, Jacob Zumah has revealed there will be no increase in university tuition fees for 2016. &#8220;We have agreed that there should be a zero increase,&#8221; Zuma said in a televised address. His address comes after a meeting with student leaders and university officials following a nationwide protest against increased fees. Thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":161900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14,16],"class_list":["post-161898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}