The SA police Service in the Eastern Cape is urging students at various Universities not to use violence during on-going protests over proposed student fee hikes for 2016.
Brigadier Marinda Mills says if students carry on breaking the law, police members will be left with no choice but to use the necessary measures to restore order.
Responding to an incident at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University on Wednesday morning, where police fired rubber bullets to disperse a crowed of protesting students, Mills said police warned the students several times to discontinue blocking traffic on Admiralty Road before firing rubber bullets.
Mills said two students were hit by rubber bullets and another was injured while trying to run away.
Brigadier Mills says the situation is calm at the moment at the NMMU in Port Elizabeth and at Rhodes at Grahamstown and that police are monitoring the situation.
At the University of Fort Hare no protest action was observed at all campuses, Alice Main Campus, East London and Bhisho.
Police have been meeting with the University Management and Student representatives to avoid protests to become unlawful and violent.
No protest action has been observed at the campuses of the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, Butterworth, Whittlesea and East London
