Police Minister Bheki Cele says eight people have been arrested in connection with two separate KwaZulu-Natal mass murders that happened on the same day earlier this month.
understand what s the old phrase by mark twain where he said, you know, a lie will travel around the world before the truth can get out of bed and put its pants on. we re seeing the amplification of what could simply be, you know, a joke between two students or we see people who may, in fact, be developing now, certainly in the response that we ve seen at these schools, of what could be the future of what we used to call bomb threats. and since parents are so concerned about the activities of students coming to school, the reality of going around shooting each other, having mass shootings at schools, much less having columbine-style mass murders, anything will be able to set this off. and all of our children are so wired, not just from the threat, but from their social media, they can hear of something in california or peru and actually
these are not valid threats. but if you re just a parent who s deciding whether or not to send your kid to school, can you help us understand how those threats are assessed? i certainly can, but it s almost important to understand what s the old phrase by mark twain where he said, you know, a lie will travel around the world before the truth can get out of bed and put its pants on. and that s what we re seeing here. we re seeing the amplification of what could simply be, you know, a joke between two students or we see people who may, in fact, be developing now, certainly in the response that we ve seen at these schools, of what could be the future of what we used to call bomb threats. and since parents are so concerned about the activities of students coming to school, the reality of going around shooting each other, having mass shootings at schools, much less having columbine-style mass