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Sthembiso ka shandu (born 27 October 1992) is a South African student activist. TUT vice President 2015 and former SRC secretary in Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus. He led worst violent protest ever at TUT where 20 cars of the university were burnt and many buildings vandalized in 2014 December. He defended student actions shifting the blame to the university management ,He led negotiations as chief negotiator for that protest where the university and his student committee agree to sign a peace accord and no student was charged or suspended. He was later kicked out at the university in 2016 after the University took a decision to deregister his Public Management Btech following a protest he led 2016 February .Although the management allowed him to graduate for his Diploma in Journalism which he had completed the previous year. He is also known for being in the forefront on fees must fall 2015 and further co-founded occupy DHET movement which occupied Department of Higher education &training Pretoria offices on 2 march 2015 .Since then he has been one of controversial student leaders who define themselves as fallist and demanding a free decolonized Education in South Africa.

Early life

Ka Shandu was born in 1992 ,his late father Bhekinkosi Aaron Mbatha (died August 2002 )and his mother Thandi Elsie at KwaVuthela ,Mahlabathini ,a rural area of Kwazulu Natal province in South Africa .He is one of 6  children and the first of his family to attend University .After passing of his father in 2002 he was raised by his single parent (his mother )  who is a GEPT pensioner, after completing matric he was forced to stay at home as his family had no money to sent him to study. He then received a 1 month job from stats SA in 2011 where he worked as a filed where during a campaign of counting people in south Africa ,he earned R5000 which he saved and used it as registration fee in Tshwane University of Technology the following year .He did Media studies and that where he joined student politics as serverd in many crucial positions in the institution as Speaker of the student parliament, SRC secretary,SRC Vice President,etc .He completed Diploma in Journalism ,and was kicked out in the University due to involvement in fees must fall activities before completing his qualification in Public management.

TUT Fees must fall

In 2015 he was part an parcel of the committee that was organizing busses for TUT to go to Union Building ,commanding the mass which changed the whole events of 2015 Fees must fall march to union building .As TUT was later accused by Wits and UJ for disturbing a peaceful march and acted as hooligans on the day he stood firm and defend the actions of TUT student activists saying they were not at union buildings per the invite of Wits or anyone ,there were there on their own capacity as fallists. He was invited by many media houses the whole 2015 to 2016 and end up as a voice for TUT fees must fall. He had forever mention that what ever he does and say is not his will but the mandate from Soshanguve Republic referring to his University campus which is Soshanguve Campus.

In 2016 as he was the Vice president he led the protest with his council members in the campus of Soshanguve .His SRC council had divided opinions about the strike ,the SRC president refused to declare the strike .He defied the president and claim to be the president in absentia of the president ,he led students to a protest where they demanded a No financial exclusion in the year 2016 and they successfully won this battle as students were later allowed to pay whatever amount they afford to register and allowed to negotiate the payment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SthembisoKaShandu (talk • contribs) 12:36, 14 November 2016 (UTC)