News:Lupane University students reportedly stage mini protest

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Lupane State University students reportedly held a mini-protest on Tuesday evening demanding their meal allowances following their participation at the college and university sports games in Bulawayo which had been organised by the Zimbabwe Tertiary Institutions’ Sports Association.

On Tuesday evening, after the games, the students refused to disembark from the bus at the agreed pick up-drop off point, demanding their promised allowances. Authorities tried placate them but they refused as they had no money for transport to go home and they ended up taking them to the university's residences by bus.

Students accused authorities of failing to take care of them by not giving them $10 each daily as meal allowances, despite assurances they would do so before the games. They also claimed LSU failed to cater for their travelling expenses from their homes to an agreed meeting place in the central business district (CBD) by not giving them daily $1 as transport fares.