Just hours after members of the provincial legislature (MPLs) condemned the violent incidents at some KwaZulu-Natal schools, including destruction of property, a school was torched in Dassenhoek near Pinetown this weekend.
Dassenhoek High School, which had two previous arson incidents, was set alight on Friday. The school is in the Pinetown District, where another school was also torched recently.
Earlier this month, pupils set a part of Ndengetho High School, in KwaNdengezi, alight after their cellphones were confiscated during a police search and seizure operation at the school.
KZN Education Department spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi confirmed the weekend incident, which he described as heartbreaking and confusing.
“At the start of the month we condemned the torching of a school in the district, and now, just weeks after the incident, we encounter…