{"id":6913,"date":"2012-01-10T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/refile-update-2-one-killed-in-south-africa-university-stampede\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:33:11","slug":"refile-update-2-one-killed-in-south-africa-university-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-update-2-one-killed-in-south-africa-university-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-UPDATE 2-One killed in South Africa university stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Refiles to fix typo)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Experts see registration rush as sign of desperation<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Education struggles to adapt to post-apartheid changes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lisa Laventure<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; One person was killed<br \/>\nand about 20 injured in a stampede on Tuesday by students trying<br \/>\nto register at the University of Johannesburg, reflecting<br \/>\ndesperate demand for higher education among the poor in Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nlargest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of potential applicants had lined up for days for<br \/>\nabout 800 slots at the university, most of them from poor<br \/>\nfamilies but who had scored high enough on national exams to be<br \/>\nconsiderated for higher education.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The application process has been open for weeks but many<br \/>\npoor students do not have Internet access and could not apply<br \/>\nonline. The crush was caused by students pushing their way into<br \/>\noffices on the final day for applications, university officials<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What led to the frenzy was a desperation amongst the<br \/>\nstudents because they see entrance into university as their only<br \/>\nchance,&#8221; said Ruksana Osman, a professor of education at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The person killed was a mother of a potential applicant,<br \/>\nuniversity officials said, while emergency services official<br \/>\nNana Radebe said about 20 people had been injured, at least<br \/>\nthree of them seriously.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Refiles to fix typo) * Experts see registration rush as sign of desperation * Education struggles to adapt to post-apartheid changes By Lisa Laventure JOHANNESBURG, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; One person was killed and about 20 injured in a stampede on Tuesday by students trying to register at the University of Johannesburg, reflecting desperate demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}