“Even if you beat us up or shoot us, you can’t stop us,” protesters in Freedom Park sang as they marched to the office of the Department of Human Settlements in Eldorado Park, south Johannesburg, on Monday. They were protesting over “empty land promises by the office for human settlement”. “They promised to give us..
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No land no vote! – Freedom Park residents protesting over “empty land promises from ANC-politicians
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Almost half of the 1600 pupils from Eldorado Park Secondary School have not being taught, after 22 union-linked teachers abandoned classrooms.
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The lack of supervision in the classroom has turned out to be a recipe for disaster as pupils loiter around the school while others engage in violence. Last week, two Grade 11 boys stabbed each other with a pair of scissors inside the classroom in front of their cheering classmates.
The fight was recorded on a fellow pupil’s cellphone. The footage shows a pupil stabbing another twice in the face as others try to intervene while others cheer them on. Seconds later, the stabbed pupil is seen angrily leaving the classroom with blood oozing from his face.
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Klipspruit West parents- Black teachers call our kids ‘coloured bastards’
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Disgruntled community members in Klipspruit West, Eldorado Park, south of Johannesburg, say coloured pupils are being degraded by black teachers at the Klipspruit West Secondary School. The issue of race seems to be at the centre of the unhappiness among locals in the area. “Many of the children drop out of the school and are..
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