Rajesh Jantilal/AFP
More R300 million damage was caused when 140 schools were looted in the recent unrest.
Sibusiso Khasa writes that attacks on schools are nothing new and if action is not taken, it is unlikely to stop.
Pupils across the country returned to school this week for the start of the third term. Some children in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng returned to damaged schools after more than 140 schools were looted and vandalised during the recent unrest. Libraries, textbooks and stationery were set alight, water supplies were destroyed, water tanks and electrical wires were stolen, and school fences were torn down.