Police have detained a man in connection with an arson attack at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg campus in which a finace department building was damaged.

The arson occurred after the university informed students that contact classes would be resuming after classes had to be held online because of unrelenting student unrest.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has opened a case of public violence after its William O’Brien building on the Pietermaritzburg campus was set on fire in a suspected arson attack on ...

Tensions rise at UKZN as building set alight while hundreds of students protest By News24 Wire Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said students gathered on the Howard campus and disrupted ...

A third building at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has been torched, with the Pietermaritzburg campus the latest to be affected. "Protesters committed acts of arson and damaged property on ...

Student protests over historical debt have erupted at two University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) campuses on Wednesday morning and has led to the suspension of registration for the new year.