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Original Post Date: 2008-03-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Candes Keating
It’s only three months into the new school year and Western Cape principals have had to deal with gang violence, assaults, abuse and even murders.
With 66 percent of the province’s schools located in high-crime areas and 63 percent of schools affected by gangs operating in the same area, principals say schools are no longer safe for pupils or teachers.
They say violence is escalating in the classroom, and playgrounds have become gang-recruiting areas.
| ‘Schools in Cape Town townships are the most dangerous in the world’ |
Dino Abrahams, principal of Crystal Secondary in Hanover Park, said: “Schools in Cape Town townships are the most dangerous in the world. The young people are starting their own gangs. At weekends they fight and then it spills into the school arena on Mondays.”
During a random search earlier this week, police confiscated several kitchen knives and a sickle. On other occasions handmade guns, machetes and screwdrivers were found.
At Simunye High, in Delft, gangs have repeatedly entered the school, robbing, assaulting and threatening pupils.
Principal Gawie Michaels said it was too dangerous to run after-school programmes.
Figures released by the Western Cape Safe Schools call centre supports the principals’ claims.
During the first three weeks of school, 231 cases, ranging from abuse (sexual, physical, emotional and verbal) to gang-related incidents, were reported. The centre also received several requests for counselling from stressed teachers.
At Masibambisane High School, also in Delft, several teachers recently quit because of violence.
One left after he was held up at gunpoint in a classroom and others after being assaulted or threatened in their classrooms by gangsters.
The violence is taking its toll on results, too. The 57 high schools that had a matric pass rate of below 60 percent in 2007 are all in crime hot spots or gang strongholds.