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BASIC EDUCATION: CULTURE OF IMPUNITY Escalating violence calls for tightening of security measures

The last week of January was characterised by many events.

While President Cyril Ramaphosa was addressing delegates at the basic education sector lekgotla at the Sandton Convention Centre, a pupil was fighting for his life in Alexandra township after being stabbed by a fellow pupil.

A week before the terrifying incident, another pupil had been killed by a pupil at another school in Gauteng.

Two weeks after the adjournment of the lekgotla, a teacher was stabbed by

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