The ill-treating of the student by fellow schoolmates



A group of learners are refusing to go to school after they

were racially abused by their fellow schoolmates.

A group of learners are refusing to return to school after they were racially abused by their fellow pupils and even their teacher.

South Africa seems to have those people who are still racist. I read a story about them (little children) and how they were mistreated by their fellow pupils as well as the teacher.

 What message does this bring to us the South Africans?

It seems there are still minority of people who still continue mistreating other people because of their colour or culture. This is not good at all and it can create chaos among the South Africans. As we South Africans, we need to take care and respect one another and show people from outside how united we are. We need to embrace our nation and show Ubuntu at all times.

This kind of treatment isn’t good at all because even those bullies wouldn’t want to be treated the way they had treated the bullied children. It’s so embarrassing to their teacher to allow such thing to happen and for her to continue doing so.  What does she teach to the little ones? She was supposed to play an example and lead those children not to ill-treat other children and treat them equally. If we South Africans continue to do so, there would not be Ubuntu and we will bring our  childrens' future at stake. So South Africans, lets think first before doing something that can harm others and/or ruin their lives. 

No ways to pay for e-toll roads

GOGO SAYS STOP: Young and old took part in the protests

organised by COSATU against the e-tolling on Gauteng's

highways. Picture by KATHERINE MUICK-MERE

What comes to mind about the E-tolling system and what does it bring at stake?

Early in 2000 we heard stories about how our government want to improve and renovate our roads and many people did not have any problems with it. But now everything has turned bitterly and sourly when we  heard about this E-tolling system. Last week events, which put the brakes on the Gauteng highway tolling project, hold many lessons for the governing and the governed.

Atleast after such a long time here comes wonderful news about this issue that we have dealt with in the past weeks. This e-tolling system is no good to the publics as we all know that many people would not afford what we have been charged. In the hue and cry about the tolls, the central conversation was not always about the rands and cents, it was about how people felt. They were shocked about what they will pay because it shows that there was no proper period of national conversation and debate.

Picture: Itumeleng English

There have been a masive resistance to e-tolling, which prompted urgent court action to halt its implementation. In its chaotic bids to introduce the e-tolling, the government made many mistakes, as did the ANC.

We need to place far less reliance on our government and far more on ourselves. Our future depends not on whether we have good representative members (government) but on whether we have a society in which citizens can be heard. We should judge our present and future not by whether we are led by genuises and saints, but by whether we have the space to ensure that the government does what we want it to do. If there is a need to intervene at a later stage, we will do so.