Editorial: We must not just condemn the disturbing incidents of pupils running amok but we need to crack down hard. If they are old enough to chase away the police and loot from bottle stores, they are old enough to face the might of the law
On Monday hundreds of pupils from Gauteng schools marched to the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House, to hand over a memorandum demanding, among other things, an end to school violence. But then they got involved in wanton violence, looting businesses and hawker stalls in the Johannesburg CBD. They even stormed a liquor store and took bottles of alcohol.
These incidents highlight the state of our schools. Not long ago a video of a pupil attacking a teacher went viral on social media. Thoriso Thamane was killed by schoolboys in Limpopo and Kulani Mathebula was stabbed outside his Mondeor High School by pupils.
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