Heavy police presence at protest
Tempers flare as parents protest placing of learners at north school.
Tempers flared as police in Pretoria North had their hands full on Wednesday morning, keeping two groups of protesters at Hoërskool Pretoria Noord apart.
There was a heavy police presence at the high school, in anticipation of a planned protest by parents unhappy over the placement of their children at distant schools.
The protest, however, only managed to attract a small group of people outnumbered by counter-protesters, mostly parents of learners at the school.
The EFF, the supposed organisers of the march, disavowed the protest yesterday.
Since the new school year started, several schools in the area have been hit by protests by parents unhappy that their children were placed at schools that were far away instead of schools closer to where they live.
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