Acumen Media has listed the week's biggest news stories in South Africa. The week has been plagued by the devastating news of school children losing their lives.
South Africans are still trying to wrap their heads, and have expressed outrage, around the death of Enoch Mpianzi - a grade eight pupil at Parktown Boys High School - who died during an orientation camp at the Nyati Lodge.
The pain of losing a child is an utterly inconsolable grief.
— Suntosh Pillay (@suntoshpillay) January 17, 2020
Heart shattering,
soul destroying
grief.#RIPEnochMpianza#ParktownBoysCamp must be held liable and #ParktownBoys must stop their toxic, colonial, orientation activities. How could they let this happen? ????
school must be sued. How can they let the learners go rafting on a raft they made themselves? Also letting the parents know a day later probably means the school itself didn't know the child was missing that whole time. Negligence is written all over this case. ?? #ParktownBoys https://t.co/kFZged3ppy
— Nandi*89*???? (@Nandi_Pia) January 17, 2020
In Diepsloot, a young schoolgirl was hit and killed by a bus during civil unrest related to xenophobia in the area.
Elsewhere in the country, a truck delivering food to the Lekgolo Primary School in Limpopo ploughed into a school wall that collapsed onto pupils, killing them in the process.
And, in Durban, a teacher was shot and critically injured at the Buhlebethu Primary School in the Inanda township in Durban.
