Thread by @LMkonqo

My own 16 June 1976 experince hehehe #StoryTime

So I started my 1st year eVarsity 2003. Orientation week started on the 27 January that year and when classes started yaqhuma iToyiToyi. As 1st year students we were not affected, at least sasicinga njalo.. because students were

.. protesting against financial exclusions. At that time it did not affect us so we continued attending and students would come and chase us out of the classes which we enjoyed kakhulu😂😂. Another thing is that ingoma zeToyiToyi zimnandi wawuzigqibela usiya eClassin but as soon

.. as you hear "lamabhulu amnyama asenzi worry" uqonda haay rhaa tseek makame uProf Sadimenko neBoron neLithium zakhe ayibaleki iPeriodic Table, ukhawuleze ube phakathi kwabo uqonde fok maan uSASCO is the way. There is something strong ngengoma zeToyiToyi ezikwenza ubeFearless..

.. like uvele uqonde no maan andiwagivi amafuck in fact makuyiwe kube kusithiwa "Inja wa inja whoo" - (injury to one is an injury to all for nina ke Ma2K). Okay ke fine ingabinamsebenzi, the student strike was intensifying everyday with negotiations with management not going well

So we were staying on a campus that is out of town using university busses from Res to campus. The last bus would leave very late because all students were required to attend the Mass Meeting.Sekhe ndashiywa yiBus ngo10 ebusuku & I walked from Alice to Fort Beaufort, story for..

... another day. So ndithi ke the strike went for the entire week with classes being disrupted every now and then for amagqubusha asithi who would attend xa kuvela ichance, BSc yayimzima guys for uphoswa ziClass. I grew up in the villages bafethu when I got to eVarsity I didn't..

.. even have iBank account🤞, so there was a lady from my village who was in her 2nd year so ndandifakelwa kwi Account yakhe imali. I need to buy a Physics textbook & my dad sent the money via her bank account. Sistaz was on the list of the students who were affected ziXclusions

So one morninv when iBus ingena on campus we see aba badikayo and ziImports from Grahamstown begcwele campus and heavily armed. Okay sharp some students are happy that the protesting students won't be able to chase those in classes vete vete abdbandnye are worried that iyaphela..

Fast forward iToyiToyi iyaqhuba throughout the day. I go for my Chemistry practical and I get a call from my home girl that "uphi ndifuna ukunika imali yakho I might go home namhlanje because heey akulungi, ndilapha ngaseMain Gate" xa ndiphuma kunje eMainGate..

A chopper was flying over the campus, cops with their dogs begcwelise campus, the main road was blocked because kungahambeki, igwijo leStudents was on high pitch and the cops were somewhat pushing students into 1 side and not allowing them to go past the main gate babekhutshwa..

So I used the small get to get out trying to call my home girl that I am by the small gate going up to the main gate - as I was waiting for her to answer the phone satsho isibhamu gqushum gqwaa gqwaa yaphela ingoma yazizijwili and students started running. When I looked inside..

.. the campus, th cops with their big guns were shooting at us. Funny how when I got out the gate students were singing "noyika ntoni ningamagwala noyika sadubula isibhamu sitsho kamandi" - but when sidubula for real yaphela ingoma everyone wayimbaleki. And we were all running to

to the same direction. Hey hey isidudla seCherry esasibaleka phambi kwam I couldn't believe my eyes shem - ewe I am not a good runner my pace is not good but kuthwa don't judge iCover neBook ezingathangani, heeey sandishiya isidudla impundu zisithi up down up down ndaba ngazama

... uCatch-up she was gone like I could catch up wayegula iGzgap umdudlana. Across the campus there are university staff houses, so we were running to those houses, I remember ndathi xa ndingena kulaGravel road yandihlaba ndaqonda in fact let me hide and not run any further..

I was thinking that by hiding, when the cops come they will follow the majority of students who ran deep into the yards etc hehehe kanti amdilibonanga eliwinayo. I was there hiding students zidlula zibaleka ndibukele lwathi cwaka and I heard cops talking and I saw them coming yho

I totally forgot that kukho naleminqoond yezinja 😭 that's when I knew that my plan yayibheda nje.I thought to myself even if the cops don't see me but leminqoond izondikhupha kakbi ngapha kwalerhanga ndilele kuyo ngesfuba, bathi besaqala uvela ndaphuma ndixhome izandla ndisithi

... uxolo Tata mna ndiToyToyi bendizothatha imali mna ndiyiFirst year student, that time nditsho kwiBhulu akusaphumi nalo English zathi ezakaka Kom Kom zandibamba kanje heee ndacacisa le again uba mna bendizothatha imali, ndakhupha student card bafuna zisithi 2003 bandiyeka..

Ndayikhwela ihamba bus to Bhofolo and the mess was all over the news, got a call from my mom and I couldn't tell her that ndisukobanjwa ngeCollar ngamapolisa 😂😂😂 the next morning amajita were surprised when I didn't wake up and prepare for Varsity I told them andiyi apho mna

Before the buses could leave for campus - a dean of students came to deliver a notice that all SA students were to vacate university premises by 13:00 that same day. Only international students were allowed to be on campus. I was so happy but imali ayipopi kengoku