Protesting parents shut down Soweto school
Police have been deployed to Job Rathebe Secondary in Orlando East amid a protest by unhappy parents.
Parents and the governing body have shut the school down as pupils return for the third term.
They want the provincial Department of Education and MEC Panyaza Lesufi to attend to various issues affecting the school in Soweto.
Police were called when one of the pupils, who was accompanied by a parent, was found with a firearm on the school’s premises.
“When we arrived on the scene, we found out it was a toy gun,” says Gauteng police spokesperson Mavimbela Masondo.
“We informed the family, confiscated the toy and warn the learner.”
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