Group fights, stabbings, assaults, and parents barricading gates to prevent teaching and learning are just some of the incidents reported at four different Gauteng schools this week.
A schoolboy was stabbed in the neck, a schoolgirl had her hair pulled out in a fight and a group of teenagers skipped class for a drunken escapade, then returned to start a brawl.
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As part of this year’s celebration of Freedom Day and as the 2021 local government elections approach, Daily Sun is hosting a webinar about how we all protect that hard won freedom.
Often we take our daily freedoms for granted, but many of them are only possible because we live in a democratic state.
Democracy is not a lofty ideal, it is in the lived experience of each of us, each day. Safeguarding democracy is not an event, it is a process – an ongoing one that requires vigilance and commitment from us all.
Mondli Makhanya, editor-in-chief of City Press, will facilitate a discussion between Justice Albie Sachs, retired Constitutional Court judge; Professor Thuli Madonsela, law faculty trust chair in social justice, Stellenbosch University and Thuma Foundation Founder; current president of the South African Principals Association, Thomas Hlongwane; and Dr Nomsa Masuku, deputy chief electoral officer responsible for outreach at the Independent Electoral Commission.