Children's human rights to education violated: Again thousands of pupils were forced from schools to 'demonstrate' and do hard, dangerous labour gathering boulders and set fire to tyre barricades in the country's ongoing and inevitably violent 'protests' - this time in Limpopo where people are becoming irate about the lack of clean reticulated municipal water and electricity due to the political crisis in landlocked Lesotho - which has turned off the water-supplies from its highlands. South Africa's deputy president is said to be engaged in 'delicate negotiations' concerning the water-rights issue.
Meanwhile Limpopo provincial towns are struggling to provide clean water to its residents. The electricity-problem has been going on for a long time in South Africa due to the ESKOM state-provider's difficulties due to the ANC-regime's laws prohibiting even the most skilled 'whites' from working in State employment.
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20 October 2014 SAPA reports that the human rights of thousands of pupils were violated and their right to education denied when the children were pulled from Limpopo schools and forced to participate and also perform hard labour collecting heavy boulders in a so-named 'service delivery protest'
Democratic Alliance leader Jacques Smalle said the children were forced from their classrooms in Maphotho, Solomondale, Sebayeng, Baphutheng, Mafololo and Leruleng. "The DA is very concerned that Grade Twelve pupils are unable to write their final-year exams. The children were used to build road-barriers with boulders and burning rubber tyres'. He issued a public call to the ANC-regime's official MEC for education in the province to 'create alternative plans for those matriculants who were unable to write their exams today'.
However the provincial spokesman for education, ANC-member Paena Galane, said it wasn't all that bad: 'private schools are writing final exams today, but state-schools' final exams only start on 28 October 2014...
SAPoliceService spokesman Brig. Hangwani Mulaudzi said on Monday that they have members posted at the violent protests in Solomondale and Lebowakgomo but don't know how many there are on site. Apparently they are protesting against the fact that there has been no clean municipal water nor electricity in the province all month. The Limpopo river has run dry due to the political upheavals in neighbouring Lesotho - which has turned off the water-delivery from the highlands to South Africa. SA's Deputy president has been holding 'delicate negotiations' behind closed doors about the cut-off water supplies with the Lesotho officials however the matter remained 'unresolved' until the political situation in Lesotho can be calmed down.
http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/limpopo-leerlinge-verhoed-om-skool-te-gaan/![]()
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