Posted on 09/07/2009 1:38:16 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
In one of the biggest but least talked about challenges to President Jacob Zuma’s new government, schools have descended into a spiral of crime that has seen murder and rape in playgrounds and classrooms.
As terrified teachers leave the profession in large numbers, security in schools is being beefed up to include police sniffer dog patrols and hand-held metal detectors. Psychologists are being drafted in to help staff to cope with trauma.
A recent survey in KwaZulu-Natal, Zuma’s home province, revealed there were 11 murders, 280 rapes and more than 2,500 violent assaults in its schools last year. A further 3,000 cases of drug possession were recorded, a pattern repeated across the country.
Alcohol and drug abuse are rampant. In the Free State, bars close to schools were reported to be selling alcohol and drugs to pupils who would often arrive drunk and armed with guns for their classes. The province also reported playground murders and the seizure of ammunition and knives.
Throughout the country there are daily reports of shocking violence. Two 60-year-old women died after they were allegedly doused with petrol and set alight by pupils at Manhlenga high school in Manguzi, KwaZulu-Natal. Reports suggest the children believed the women had cast a spell on them.
A teenager from Thornwood secondary school near Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, was sentenced in Durban for murdering a teacher who had “humiliated” him in front of his fellow pupils. A 14-year-old from the New Drift high school near Paarl, in the Western Cape, appeared in court after stabbing a fellow pupil in the heart after an argument on a school bus. Also in Durban, mobile phone videos showing the rape of a schoolgirl were circulated in playgrounds, leading to the arrest of three schoolboys.
In Cape Town there have been at least 60 stabbings
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Those shoes don’t look very traditional to me
The place sounds like Chicago - wonder why?
How long until there is no South Africa... a once great Nation?
LLS
to what?
“Out of Darkest Africa”, is not about color, but about darkness of heart.
Yes, there is a parallel here.
They like to riot and teat down their own homes and cities first don't cha know....
Kinda like they do in Detroit except that Detroit is pretty much gutted now. Wonder what other parallels exist between S.A., Grand Bahamas, and Detroit?
Mandela really did a great job for South Africa didnt he?
What a hero.
Sooooo, let6’s hold the World Cup in this third world cess pool.
Bet ya get a whole lot of folks declining to attend this bit of inclusion.
Sort of looks like one of my wife’s family reunions.
On a recent trip to Ireland at a b and we were staying at, my wife and I talked to a man from South Africa. He did’t like Zuma one bit, and viewed him as a crook.
Even though blacks stopped coming to this country 150 years ago from Africa in large numbers, we see amazing similarities with those left behind. The acorn doesnt fall far from the tree.
Clearly South Africa is far better off now than it was 25 years ago..............right? (Zimbabwe too, right?)
I’m still recovering from Sat’s miserable game!
Another liberal cause that has turned to Crap
Sounds like “the ‘hood” on steroids, eh?
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