AMNESTY International South Africa has called for the banning of rubber bullets. This comes after 35-year-old Mthokozisi Ntumba died during Wednesday’s Wits protest.
Police are alleged to have shot the victim with rubber bullets meant for protesting students.
Previously, Amnesty International said in its report about the FeesMustFall protests that while some of the protesters were not peaceful, the police at times responded with excessive use of force, including firing rubber bullets at close range at students and supporters when force was neither necessary nor proportionate.
“In Johannesburg a student leader who had tried to speak to the police, but whom they turned away and who then turned to walk back to join her colleagues, was shot in the back 13 times with rubber bullets, and a student who tried to help her was also hit by rubber bullets,” said Amnesty International SA.
“In Durban another student was shot in
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