Vryburg High School

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Vryburg High School is a school in Vryburg, North West Province, South Africa. It made the news in 1998 when tensions between white, Afrikaans-speaking students and black students who were taught in English lead to violence including alleged hostage-taking, beatings of students, and riots. The incident was sparked of when a group of white male students assaulted a classmate 2 years their senior after he sexually assaulted a white female classmate. The black male in question (Babeile) retaliated by stabbing one of his attackers in the neck with a pair of scissors.

[edit] References

• Pupils plunge 'town of the free' into race war The Independent, The; 28 February, 1998 (accessed 01 November 2006)
• Babeile in court for sexual harassment IOL, 03 August, 2004

[edit] Further reading

• Schoolboy stabbed with scissors news24.com article