Cape Town – Teachers at a Lavender Hill school say regular gang shootings, a broken fence, snakes and motorists who crash their vehicles into the school grounds are putting pupils’ and their own lives at risk.
The teachers of Prince George Primary, which borders Prince George Drive, say their pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears, forcing them to start a silent protest campaign to draw attention to the plight.
Parents and teachers have been picketing along the M5 in the mornings before school for the past few days.
Principal Lameez Rabbaney said teachers “reached boiling point” after a shooting on Grindal Avenue about two weeks ago. She said because the shooting was so close to the school, the children had to be sent home.
“Teachers can’t teach if they are afraid that bullets are going to come through their window.”
Rabbaney said a large part of the school’s fence, bordering the Rondevlei Nature Reserve, had been damaged and removed and trespassers had been caught on the grounds more than once.
“What has also left us vulnerable is that we now have only one Bambanani guard for a school of more than 800 children. We previously had three.”….
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