<div dir="ltr"><h1>VIDEO: Violent clashes at Elsenburg College<a alt="video-1"><span class=""></span>
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<p>STELLENBOSCH - AfriForum Youth has hired a private security
company to beef-up safety at the Elsenburg Agricultural College
following violent protests on the Western Cape campus.</p>
<p>The college has been hit by language policy protests since Monday.
The situation turned violent on Tuesday morning as protesters exchanged
blows with non-protesting students.</p>
<p>The clash was recorded on cellphone by a student. AfriForum Youth claims several non-protesting students were injured.</p>
<p>“The security company will be at the campus before the end of day. We
don’t intend to take over the campus but we want to protect
non-protesting students from these hooligans. College management has
totally lost control of the situation, that is why we are stepping in,”
said AfriForum Youth national chairman Henk Maree.</p>
<p>Elsenburg Agricultural College head of communications, Petro van
Rhyn, confirmed the clash but said there was no need for AfriForum Youth
to hire a private security company because the institution “has
normalised the situation”.</p>
<p>Van Rhyn said security would be bolstered and an interdict would be
secured to protect students rights and to ensure classes continued
without interruption.</p>
<p>“The situation is back to normal. Police are monitoring the campus to
prevent further intimidation or violence among students. We have also
taken the legal route to protect the right to education. We believe that
differences should be resolved through discussion and not violence,”
said Van Rhyn.</p>
<p>No arrests have been made and classes had resumed by 11:00 am, according to Van Rhyn.</p>
<p>Referring to the language issue, Van Rhyn said that progress has been
made on language policy and a task team had been set up to discuss this
policy.</p>
<p>In the short term, lecturers would be duplicated and classes would be
lengthened to accommodate their being taught in English and Afrikaans.</p>
<p>In the medium term, a new language policy would be introduced, which would be implemented in January 2016.</p>
<p>Van Rhyn said that students were aware of the new language policy,
but a small group wanting to be taught only in English were still
opposing it. <br></p><p><a href="https://www.enca.com/south-africa/watch-elsenburg-students-fight">https://www.enca.com/south-africa/watch-elsenburg-students-fight</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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