ANGRY LIMPOPO STUDENTS VERSUS CRUEL ROBBERS

Thursday, 03 May 2012 happened to be a day which a group of eight robbers had a BAD call at the University of Limpopo’s Mankweng campus, east of Polokwane after being attacked with several of ANGRY students.

The eight men had robbed one of the university students of a cell phone at 01:00 midnight and the suspected thieves were apprehended by the students and were severely assaulted.  About approximately 100 students beat them up with stones, sticks and other dangerous weapons. Three of the robbers escaped and were later arrested by the police outside the university campus and the other five robbers were badly injured. The students stoned an ambulance that was called to take the injured robbers to hospital, but did not injure the medics. They also broke a campus office window.



Angry students as last seen today at the University of Limpopo



How I view this issue on a Public relations practitioner point of view is that, students or people should learn and try to calm down no matter how bad they are provoked because later on, if it was not for the police who stopped them, they were supposed to be behind bars facing charges of attempted murder which was to be a bad news for their career in future. My point is I hereby making an appeal to all people to refrain from taking the law into their own hands since one bad day this might make them suffer the consequences. These students should have kept the suspects and waited for the police to come and arrest them so that the law could be applied against them than to beat them up because if they died, there was no going to be any evidence to the police on their way of investigating this case. Thus, they were somehow in some way going to be the one who were suspects at the end of the day.