Matters have truly gone out of hand as the strike has been taken up by a new demographic. Starting this week students in Grade 12 (which is the last year of high school) have been protesting the fact that schools required them to take their preliminary matriculation exams so soon after the strike. All around the country kids in this grade have dropped their pencils and taken to the streets, including kids here in Port Elizabeth.
Confrontations with the police have been reported as crowds of students have damaged property and blocked off streets, in fact on Tuesday police resorted to using rubber bullets in order to disperse the crowds of students. A 17 year old girl in the Free State lost her life yesterday as a warning shot by a policeman ricocheted and hit her in the back. To think that someone has lost their life over this whole situation is beyond belief. May she rest in peace.
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