Riot police quash UB student march

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The University of Botswana (UB) student demonstration turned violent when police intercepted the illegal march, apparently en route to Parliament to coincide with Finance Minister, Baledzi Gaolathe's presentation of his 2009 budget proposal.

A morning meeting addressed by the students representative council (SRC) had resolved to disrupt classes so that no one goes for lessons, campus sources say. Students from the morning assembly took hourly patrols to ensure that their decision was not contravened.

"These students are seriously disturbing us and now they have removed us from the classes. I am going home and I will only return to the university when things have normalised," one student appealed.

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