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South Africa: ANC attacks rising violence of student demonstrations

SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC party condemned the escalating violence by student protesters, urging a return to talks yesterday.

The movement spoke out a day after three security guards narrowly escaped death in a petrol bomb attack by protesters on their control room at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

And in the coastal city of Durban two individuals — one of whom was not a student — were arrested over arson attacks on a halls of residence TV room and a lecture theatre.

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