'We can't tolerate a situation where children smoke dagga inside the school premises,' Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Friday.
On the basis of evidence produced at the disciplinary hearing,"on Monday we are going to open a criminal case with the police", he said to gasps of surprise.Video footage shared on social media — which is not being republished by TimesLIVE due to the involvement of minors — showed boys and girls in school uniform puffing on several"dagga joints" and passing them to classmates. Thick clouds of smoke rise above the pupils.
Lesufi told pupils they had two choices:"Either you want to be a learner or you don't want to be a learner. We can't tolerate a situation where children smoke dagga inside the school premises."as several learners, from Randfontein High School on the West Rand and Mamellong Secondary School in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni, were hospitalised".
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