One person has died after a stampede broke out among crowds of people trying to enrol¹ at a university in the South African city of Johannesburg.

南非城市约翰尼斯堡某大学发生人群踩踏事故，一人死亡。

"There was a person that was deceased（死亡） ," University of Johannesburg (UJ) spokesman Herman Esterhuizen said.

The victim was said to be the mother of a prospective² student.

More than 180,000 high school graduates are expected to be turned away from South Africa's nine top universities this year, said the Times newspaper.

It said about 74,000 students would fail to win a place at the University of Johannesburg alone.

Soaring unemployment has added to the pressure on place numbers, says the BBC's Andrew Harding in South Africa.

Tuesday's incident occurred as students queued for last-minute places at the university, registrar³ Marie Muller told eNews channel.

On Monday alone 5,000 registered in person for last minute places, and applicants⁴ waited through the night.

The stampede apparently⁵ happened just after the main gate was opened at 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT), emergency services spokeswoman Nana Radebe was quoted as saying.

The dead woman had suffered severe head and chest trauma⁶（创伤，外伤） , reports say.

Two people are also said to have been seriously injured.