Growing violence forces South African parents of black students to seek education at ‘only white’ schools

Violence and growing gang activities ask black parents in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, to make The difficult decision Sending their children to “only-all” schools for fear, reports BBC.

Although it was 30 years ago that apartheid ended in South Africa, there are still statements. As the violence increases, there are limited options for parents to convert a safe learning environment for their children, so that long journeys to outdoor areas are asked.

Sibahle Mbasana has three children who go to a school in Khayelitsha, the largest municipality of Cape Town.

“Schursing would go to the school with weapons, threatening teachers, powerful take their laptops for the students,” said Mbasana. “Imagine that your child experiences this regularly. There is hardly any security at the school and even if that is, they are powerless to do something.”

The issues forced her to transfer her 11 and 12-year-old sons to a state school, almost 25 miles away in Cape Peninsula, known for his photo-perfect views and the navy base in South Africa. The daughter of Mbasana, 7, also goes to the same school, which has better facilities and smaller classes.

She feels for her children, who, as victims of inherit an inheritance of black students who are confronted with racial bias and inequalities that are embedded as a result of the laws of apartheid. One law was the Bantu Education Act of 1953, aimed at the prevention of black children who were able to be trained as they should. The law led schools to be separated – the way in which American schools were during the Jim Crow era – with fewer resources and reduced financing for disadvantaged communities.

South Africa is still suffering from the legislation, making a domino effect of schools that are overcrowded and plagued with a high number of crime, drug use and violence.

Although families such as the Mbasanas admit that they would like to move to the areas where their children are forced to go to school for a better life, they admit that it is not financially feasible.

However, some of these “only-all” schools, often state schools, bring costs. Although they are subsidized, parents have to pay school costs, which vary between $ 60 (£ 45) and $ 4,500 (£ 3,350) per year in the Western Cape.

Teachers are also the victims of growing violence in Cape Town. Teachers in the primary school of Zanemfundo in Philippi East were Allegedly dropped out of the 10% of their salaries from gang members.

“It is not safe at all. We are in extreme danger,” said a teacher on the website Thorough. “These gangs come to the school gun-waving. Our life is at risk. Teachers at the school ask for transfers because they do not feel safe.”

A number of similar incidents took place at five other schools in the surrounding areas of Nyanga, Philippi and Samora Machel. However, managers of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) work to make things better – and safer – by offering private security stickers in schools, in addition to the police who patrol the intended areas.

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