Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Fears of crime and gang violence in the notorious townships on the outskirts of the South African city of Cape Town are forcing some parents to make difficult decisions to send their children on long daily commutes to former white-only schools. ‘Thugs would go into the school carrying guns threatening teachers, forcefully taking their laptops in front of the learners,’ Sibahle Mbasana told the BBC about the school her sons used to attend in Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s largest township. ‘Imagine your child experiencing this regularly. There’s hardly any security at the school and even if there is, they are powerless to do anything.’ It is more than three decades since the end of white-minority rule in South Africa, but there are still black students who have to endure the vast inequalities that were the bedrock of the racist system of apartheid.” (06/16/25)