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{{Police have arrested more than 20 students at a leading South African university, the public broadcaster reports, as protests against a proposed rise in tuition fees spread.{}}} <\/p>\n

The arrests came after students defied a court order obtained by the University of Cape Town (UCT), declaring their action unlawful. <\/p>\n

The protests have spread to at least six universities. <\/p>\n

It is the biggest action by students since apartheid ended in 1994. <\/p>\n

The students, most of whom are black, say they cannot afford a proposed rise in tuition fees of between 10% and 12%, roughly twice the rate of annual inflation. <\/p>\n

They also say it amounts to discrimination in a country where the average income of black families is far less than that of white families. <\/p>\n

The demonstrators include medical students marching with stethoscopes around their necks, and singing freedom songs which inspired people to fight the former apartheid regime.<\/p>\n

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The protest started at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg last week, before spreading to UCT, Rhodes, Stellenbosch, Fort Hare and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. <\/p>\n

Some of them have been forced to shut down, as students burnt barricades and stormed buildings. <\/p>\n

At UCT, police fired stun grenades to disperse protesters who defied a court order preventing the disruption of lectures, the public broadcaster, SABC reports.<\/p>\n

The protest at Wits university has continued, despite its management agreeing to suspend the increase in fees until talks place. <\/p>\n

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is now meeting university officials to find a solution.<\/p>\n

Universities should show “greater caution and sensitivity” when setting fees in order to “minimise the detrimental impact on poor students”, he said on Monday. <\/p>\n

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