Debbie Fox
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/ 13 May 2005

Tracking down the truants

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 […]

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/ 13 May 2005

Understanding drug addiction

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 […]