Lerato Mbhiza
The Higher Education, Science, and Innovation Minister, Blade Nzimande, has condemned the killing in a crossfire of a University of Johannesburg (UJ) 2nd-year accounting student in Braamfontein last week.
The incident left three people dead and one student hospitalised after sustaining injuries in the face.
At the time of the shooting on Thursday afternoon, the student was travelling from the university to his residence in the Johannesburg city centre and the university confirmed last week that the student, who was declared dead on the scene, was in his second year.
On Monday, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande sat with the family of the slain student David Nxumalo, and visited the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital where another student, Dimpho Mosia, who survived the ordeal is being treated for injuries sustained in the shooting incident.
The 18-year-old Mosia is said to be recovering well after he was struck
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