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School excursions-linked deaths worry parents

pupils at risk

PARENTS and communities cannot live in constant fear for the lives of the children they entrust into the hands of their teachers, no matter where, when and how.

This is because they hold the trust of the nation to safeguard this precious national resource, on which the country is dependent for the future, sociologist and parent Xolani Memela said.

Speaking on the back of the shock of the rising deaths of children during school excursions, especially to drowning, Memela said: “It is extremely important to tighten the screws which govern activities,

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