Mboro's church torched, five arrested

Published: Aug 05, 2024 Duration: 00:05:49 Category: News & Politics

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hang Provincial Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy momeni has confirmed the arrest of a fifth individual in connection with the incidents of intimidation and violence at maido Primary School in katleong this arrest follows the earlier Detention of four suspects believed to be involved in the incident in a related development the incredible happenings Church led by well-known South African Pastor basa mboro Ming has been vandalized and set on fire by Angry residents of katleong the unrest stems from an incident where three men wielding pangas violently threatened teachers and students at maido Primary School in katong east of Johannesburg sparking widespread out outrage as far as I know there's no injuries that have been reported we have deployed our Po and our our visible policing members they are on the ground and we will be monitoring this area sabc news reporter Calvin ler has more for us we are still here in GLE where school kids allegedly bent to ases at the tent belonging to Pastor mooro let me now introduce Steve mabona who speaks for education in this province Mr maona thank you very much for your time we saw you um with other officials here trying to see what exactly happened what happened today now look remember we came in this area to visit the school to check on our process that we have already started that of counseling and um the counseling process for the Learners started smoothly and the only one that we are still going to do tomorrow is the one for the employees and uh we will just make sure that we we we continue with that and when we check on the the the the process of uh curriculum delivery was not disrupted Learners managed to be in a classroom while they were being cancelled and uh you know during break they managed to go and eat as we are providing you know nutrition at that school and we heard that this church is Banning uh allegations that uh probably some of uh might have been seen seeing lers here but they will leave it to the police to conduct their investigation and um just discourage you know anything that want to take law into our own hands um we need to discourage that CU we can't be banning things uh because there's a you know a challenge that we are facing in a school or in the community because police are there the author is is there to you know investigate because we opened the case you know on this matter last night and the police reassured us that they will investigate and in their investigation if they have enough evidence for them to arrest that's what they will do I just wanted to ask you because I saw when we arrive here there were kids here and some of them should be at at school so you are saying today there was no disruption no there was not probably it might have been few schools um but we need to get a report from the district because they will check in this area what happened and they will give us that information and we will understand but you know I came here as well um there were no many uh different school uniforms like the entire K was disrupted no and uh that's why I will investigate and check um which schools where it is upate as it were this is what happened today should be concerning to some officials especially from government it's not something that as usual that happen today definitely I mean you will understand that it's a church the there are people that you know rely on the church for you know for their own reasons and um that's why we are saying we we don't need to take laws into our own hands uh because us as a developmental institution we nurture skills we teach children how to behave uh you know working with parents disciplined and make sure that they understand on how to lead life so we can't be a country where if there's something we go B things one thing we go B things we'll end up with no country so is there any message that you are going to communicate to your students from now on after this incident no we've been communicating to the community at large the school community be it parents be it anyone that will want to disrupt schooling it's something that we discourage because this is a critical time you'll remember that you know most schools we have started with examination we came back now in term three and um the preliminary examination will be starting for the grade 12 which is um probably next week or so so we don't really need disruptions at all

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