School children’s march against rape turns violent

Nearly five-thousand Pretoria schoolchildren were involved in running street battles with police in Mamelodi on tuesday. The Pretoria News reports that dozens of businesses were ransacked and looted. Children from five primary and secondary schools in Mamelodi East assaulted a man for allegedly raping a 19-year-old schoolgirl because police apparently failed to respond to the rape 24-hours after it happened. Irate children attacked the man with planks, steel bars and wire, before dragging him across an open field. Residents, business owners, vendors and motorists fled when the children stoned vehicles, houses and shops, stealing tens of thousands of rands worth of merchandise.