In this country, you'll know the academic years are well and truly under way when reports of protests ranging from those by parents, students and everybody in-between make news headlines. The picture is fully complete when racial clashes are added to the list.

As we closed out the week last week, a story broke out about how a gang of louts in school uniform at a high school in the West Rand went on a rampage, beating up pupils of a darker hue because they didn't like the “kaff*r music” their victims had been playing earlier...