 For more videos and people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. This series of protests kicked off on the 4th of March 2021 when the VET Student Representative Council took to the Flower Hall building to halt all registration procedures for first-year students and returning students alike. Initially, student leaders wanted to halt registration procedures. Thousands and thousands of students who became excluded as a result of their historical debt to the institution. However, as it stands on the 8th day of the demonstration, the institution still hasn't addressed the students and really tried to meet their demands. Hence why they have taken back to the streets for yet another week to ensure that more students are allowed back into the system. Student representative councils from universities across the country have today joined in the fight against financial exclusion to shut down all university programs. The events of that fateful Wednesday started on the intersection in Rumpen Tank between Jerusalem Street and Young Smudts Avenue where tires were being burnt. Police officers were deployed to disperse the card of students when stoned grenades were thrown at the students. Yet again on the 8th day of the demonstration against financial exclusion, the protest is back on that very same intersection where it all started. The protest is now moving from the street where the night vigil was held for the late Toghazi Santuna and as I stand behind me is the phoenix way we came out to have a doctor's appointment with his doctor. This, as I'm standing right now, is the spot where the tool was placed. In his media briefing, the institution's Vice Chancellor Zeblon Villagasi has clearly stated that they are not in any financial position to continue funding or rather helping students that are in need of the financial assistance because then it would mean that they will not continue sustainably financially. How do you feel about this? So I'm actually of the view that they are not for us, they are clearly not for us. For them to say that they're not, they're clearly not for us. Number one, there is a surplus that remains that could assist all these 6000 students. They give themselves bonuses of about 20 million and it doesn't make sense for them to give themselves bonuses whereas the students we haven't registered. So for them to say that they don't have money is a problem on its own but also fear that they must come to the table with us and say okay because we don't have money as they claim they must say okay we're willing to take you students and comrades to the table with national government along with other universities to start a conversation of policy change to see how we can restructure the policy to accommodate each and every individual who qualifies to be at the university. I mean it has already been a week over a week now of protest and it doesn't look like anything is materializing on the side of your demand. What's the way forward from from today onwards and rather this week? So the things have actually materialized if we look at UCT they responded according to the events that happened here in Bramfanjain. They haven't materialized on our side as you say as Vets but I would like to believe that we are also assisting other universities by having this demonstration right but we want them to take the conversation further and say that okay because UCT have this problem let's come to the table and then renegotiate everything from the beginning because at this point we have students who are holding the ground will continue to hold the holding the ground even if it takes us a month will continue closing down businesses to ensure that the economy also has the shape because the economy is the spine of the country if the economy doesn't move the country also doesn't move so we'll continue closing the economy and ensuring ensuring that our demands are met accordingly. As you've heard the Vets SRC is not backing down the students here in Bramfanjain are also not backing down as more colleges have joined in on the protest more protests will follow and will continue for the duration of this week.