PICTURES: Cosas threatens to shut down private schools

Parents turned away from the school

Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrated outside Charterhouse private school in Roodepoort this morning, threatening to close the school, and others, claiming they are concerned for the safety of pupils.

The school still has pupils in their classrooms. According to Managing Director of the school Mike Aitkin it is only the early childhood development part of the school that remains open.

The group is also calling for private and government schools to all open on the same date.

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Lindokuhle Xulu (right), from the ANC Youth League, speaks to Managing Director of Charterhouse Mike Aitkin, as supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and ANCYL demonstrate outside the private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega

: Picture: Michel Bega

: Supporters of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) demonstrate outside Charterhouse, a private school in Roodepoort, 26 January 2021, stating that the school is endangering the safety of its pupils by remaining open. According to Charthouse only the early child development part of the school is accommodating pupils. The demonstrators are also saying all schools must open on the same date. Picture: Michel Bega