More than 1,000 children polished their shoes and packed their books for the start of the new school term only to be left stranded on the side of the road due to the transport department’s alleged failure to pay operators.
A growing trend of young people undergoing intwaso and reportedly being overtaken by spirits during school hours has raised concerns about disruptions to learning, with teachers not knowing how to deal with the matter.
After being stranded at a bus stop in anticipation of scholar transport that has failed to arrive since the start of the academic year, dozens of Nelson Mandela Bay pupils are losing hope of walking into their new classrooms any time soon.
While the biggest worry for most pupils is doing their homework, the pupils and teachers at Rocklands Intermediate Farm School must fend off a tokoloshe said to have been that is haunting the hallways of the school.