MHUBHE PUPILS RIOT AGAIN!

NGCULWINI – Mhubhe High School pupils are it again! Once again, the pupils yesterday morning, abandoned classes and rioted, demanding that the suspended teachers at the school be brought back to resume their duties.

This act of defiance is against a number of efforts by the officers from the Regional Education Office (REO) to restore order and peace at the school.
Yesterday, the pupils are said to have abandoned classes and gathered around the school yard, chanting that they wanted their teachers back. This commotion is said to have lasted for about four hours.

Teachers

While they (pupils) were rioting, teachers are said to have sprinted to their various vehicles, so they could drive their cars to a place of safety. This follows that in a riot about two weeks ago, the pupils vandalised school property worth in excess of E40 000.
This entailed burning of the staffroom, pelting of window panes with stones and breaking a number of doors.

According to one of the witnesses, the riot started at the upper blocks – which shelter Form I – IV pupils. Other pupils later joined in.
The first riot, which happened just a day after schools had resumed for the second term, saw six pupils being arrested for the commotion. However, they were later released on bail.

Intervention

Meanwhile, yesterday no pupils were arrested; but instead, the swift arrival of police officers and the intervention of teachers, saw the pupils calm down and return to class.
Some teachers who were engaged by this publication relayed that it was no longer a conducive working environment at the school. They said each day they went to work, they were anxious of what would happen on that particular day.

“It is scary and stressful here, such that we’ll have a tough time teaching tomorrow (today),” one teacher said.
On the other hand, on Wednesday, teachers had a meeting with senior police officers, which was later followed by another meeting with inspectors from the four regions of the country. It is said the meeting was aimed at boosting morale, following the suspension of two teachers on Tuesday.

The two suspended teachers are the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT) President, Mbongwa Dlamini and John Hoffman.
Worth noting is that the head teacher of the school, Agrippa Dlamini, has not been present at Mhubhe since last week.

The deputy head teacher, whose name could not be ascertained, declined to comment yesterday.
The deputy has been at the helm of business ever since Dlamini was requested to stay a home for his own safety. The school has been full of activity, as during a prayer service, pupils informed Pastor Bakhe Dlamini  that they were not ready to reform from their wayward ways.

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