Matric exams disrupted

By Khanyisa Tabata
14 November 2009


176 matriculants have been forced to rewrite their Physics paper one, after their exams were disrupted by angry mobs at three high schools in Cape Town yesterday.

The Western Cape Education department says the schools exams at the Thembelihle High School in Khayelitsha, the Sinethemba and the Intsebenziswano schools in Philippi were brought to a halt after a crowd of pupils who were protesting over the closure of Lagunya Finishing School stormed into their classrooms.

They re-wrote their exams after the protesters dispersed. In a similar incident on Thursday exams at Langa Secondary School were disrupted and two pupils were injured after policed dispersed the crowd with rubber bullets.

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