Petrol bomb thrown at house
Attack on the home of a pupil 'is aimed at intimidating learners and preventing them from participating in camps set up to assist them with the catch-up learning programmes'
BRIEFED: Angie MotshekgaA petrol bomb has been thrown at a house in the troubled John Taolo Gaetsewe district, Northern Cape police said.
"They threw a bomb at the house, but it missed," Lieutenant Andrea Cloete said.
Cloete could not say whether one person or a group was behind the attack, and it was unclear when the incident happened.
Basic education spokesman Panyaza Lesufi said the home belonged to the parents of a pupil in the district.
"The department believes the attack on the home of one of the learners is aimed at intimidating learners and preventing them from participating in camps set up to assist them with the catch-up learning programmes," he said.
A total of 41 of the 65 schools in the John Taolo Gaetsewe district municipality have been closed since June because of intimidation. Locals were protesting about a lack of tarred roads in the municipality.
An 18-page report on the situation, compiled by an education task team, was handed to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga last Monday.
At the weekend, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille said three schools had been burnt down and hundreds of pupils relocated to a camp.
Lesufi condemned the incident and the intimidation of pupils in the area.
"The department will not be deterred or intimidated from delivering on its mandate and assisting learners to catch up with the curriculum."
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warry
What will be the benefits of hating your country and deny your own kids education.Report Abuse
|Sinudeity|
Holy $h1t. People throwing petrol bombs at learners to intimidate them?"A total of 41 of the 65 schools in the John Taolo Gaetsewe district municipality have been closed since June because of intimidation."
Of course, in a few years time when these uneducated kids are unemployed, apartheid will be blamed again.
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todaysnews
@|Sinudeity|apartheid and foreigners will be blamed.
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cornelius
Piles of text books found near police stations and now this. It is pretty obvious what is going on - the Mathale Provincial government, peeved by being placed under administration, is trying its best to undermine the national government efforts.It is hard to believe that some sectord of our nation are so criminally minded thast they would actually k.ill people fior their own political careers - not to serve but to feed at the trough of our money. uuggh.
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lindsay
@Sinudeitythey will be demanding R12,500 and intimidating people who wants to work and they will be preaching nationalisation of mines and economic freedom in their lifetime whatever that crap means and also blaming the west for their lack of education.
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Lehido
I was anti-Angie Motshekga but it now its abvious that someone is trying thier damnest to sabotage the DepartmentThe very same kids that are being disturbed and threatened will in 10 years time be singing Nationalisation and what-not, just the fat joke malema
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candilious
This is sad reallyAnd YES Apartheid will be blamed for this ..............................
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mvemvane
Angie must be fired, period. She is grossly incapable and thinks she is untouchable because the husby is a chief whip in parliament. These are some of the things that make my blood boil and want to remove zuma today.ASiJiKi!!! ASiJiKi!!!!
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Senyobinyobi
Apartheid blamed for the current incompetence. this is all bull$#it, we should be progressing in life but our clueless leaders keeps on taking us back, K@KReport Abuse
lerotse
You are busy putting your noses in what you do not know .All this people are fighting for their individual richness .All of them have some shares in most means of productions in AZANIA you are sitted there armchair speculating will not help you .Vote this people out of power and vote other parties in and see if the same thing can happen of which I think it won't. VOTE BCM VOTE FOR ALTERNATIVE VOTE AZAPO.Report Abuse
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