Over 1 million learners report school violence in SA
Early Breakfast with Africa Melane · 4 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: You will setting them to and Kate, Kate is early breakfast. Speaker 2: Seventeen after five, You're on early breakfast. Africa is not chair. My name is Tabo Speaker 2: Cho Lamachau. And new data released during Child Protection Week paint said very troubling picture Speaker 2: of safety in South African schools, with more than one point one million learners reporting Speaker 2: some violence or the other in twenty twenty four. The findings show that the teachers Speaker 2: are more frequently identified as perpetrators of physical violence than fellow pupils, and this raises Speaker 2: urgent questions about discipline, accountability, and safeguarding in the education system. My guest trains us Speaker 2: right now. Terrence Color, a Department of Education spokesperson. Terrence, thanks for your time, really Speaker 2: appreciated. Good morning and welcome. Speaker 3: Good morning talk. Thank you so much, and Montory listeners. Speaker 2: These are a lemming numbers, Terrence. Are schools becoming unsafe spaces for very children they Speaker 2: are meant to protect. Speaker 1: So thank you so much for opportunities are just to be able to address the Speaker 1: messes around school safety. I think you know our regent data is showcasing quite alarming Speaker 1: numbers of experiences of young people of violence. I think our frameworks and the mechanisms Speaker 1: through which we. Speaker 3: Deliver school safety and elevate school safety. Speaker 1: In our schools have changed over the wild, you know. So, I think the instances Speaker 1: of reporting have definitely increased, but I don't think that exists isolated from an environment Speaker 1: where the Department itself is taking proactive steps to make sure that it improves safety
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