DISGRACEFUL: Rampaging Fort Hare students go on looting spree

The #FeesMustFall student protest took an angry turn at the University of Fort Hare when hundreds of students broke into a bookstore and looted study material worth thousands of rands at the Alice main campus yesterday.

Scenes of vandalism and looting played out on the campus as students protested in the rain outside and inside the campus and later stormed the locked Van Schaik bookstore and plundered the stationery.

UFH vice-chancellor Dr Mvuyo Tom said he was deeply disappointed by the students’ actions, which had turned a legitimate student movement towards criminality.

He described the lootings as “a disgrace to the university’s name”.

“We are terribly disappointed. It is a disgrace for the university,” Tom said.

“These are people we thought would be able to keep the ethics of the university of good leadership but they have reduced a legitimate protest into criminality.”