Central SA
Concern over escalating gang violence at Northern Cape school─── 12:38 Sat, 23 Jul 2022
Teachers and parents at Greenpoint High School near Kimberley in the Northern Cape are fearing for their lives and their children’s lives.
This, following the escalation of gang violence at the school. Gang-related attacks have been going on since the beginning of the year.
A learner at the school was stabbed on Wednesday in another gang violence incident which led to the school’s closure.
The School Governing Body Chairperson Leon Monyobo says thirty learners involved in gang violence have been suspended pending disciplinary action.
“As the SGB members, we are going to be here not on a daily basis but I’m always here to look for the safety (of the children) and so on. We have given them their suspension letters – and they will realise what they have done is wrong. We have suspended them for seven days now and we are going to go to the disciplinary hearing. And when we are done with that they will realise that this problem that they caused at school, we cannot tolerate it.”
The Department of Education in the Northern Cape says its educational support team has been deployed to Greenpoint High School in Kimberley to give counselling to the learners and teachers.
