Schools closed
NZPA-Reute The South Aincan government said yesterday it had closed 13 more black schools because of student boycotts and classroom disruption.
Johannesburg
The announcement from the Education and Training Department, which last week closed 20 schools, fuelled concern about the crisis in black education.
A department spokesman, Job Schoeman, said 10 of the 13 schools were in Soweto. Attendance at the schools had
virtually zero and effective education had become impossible, the department said. It put the blame on pupils and local communities, saying they had squandered and neglected the opportunity to get an education.
To stop militants infiltrating campuses, the Government issued identity cards to pupils, put soldiers in some schools and said that children who failed to register would be barred from receiving an education for the rest of the year.
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