Getting children off the streets and back in school helps fight crime “I didn’t feel like going to school here. My mother didn’t want to send me. She said I was wasting her money.” Nadima (13) has been off school for six months since she moved to live with her mother in Manenberg. She spends […]
A CHILD is caught smoking dagga during break. How should the school respond? All too often it’s by suspending, sometimes expelling, the offender. In one Western Cape school a first-time dagga user was expelled. The school merely moved the problem on. National guidelines leave the details of drug policy to provincial departments or individual governing […]