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Podcast: The Herald
Episode: Education experts discuss Cedarberg Primary crime crisis
Description: Disturbing is how National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA (Naptosa) executive director Basil Manuel describes the goings on at a Nelson Mandela Bay primary school.
Teachers at Cedarberg Primary School in Booysen Park are at their wits’ end as pupils run rampant, join gangs, threaten the teachers and classmates, and allegedly hide guns and sell dagga on school grounds.
The situation has escalated to the point where heavily armed police have been called upon to patrol the premises and monitor the ticking time bomb.
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