Security guards averted a potential conflict at East Bank Secondary School by preventing the entry of a gang of armed boys.
Witnesses said about nine boys between 13 and 15 years of age trudged to the school at about 10am on 6 March seemingly shouting the name of another boy who was at the school. They were allegedly armed with cricket bats, sticks, empty beer bottles, panga and one had what appeared to be a gun. Some of them are said to have hidden their arsenal behind a concrete palisade fence at Altrec Sports Complex and took them away as they left after their failed entry into the school.
Officers from the Alexandra Police Station summoned to the school are said to have taken the boys away in a truck seemingly to quiz them. The school reported no incident inside the premises but there was a rumour about a confrontation between some boys after school the previous day in the township. Witnesses and the school couldn’t confirm if the melee was related to the tiff and whether the boys were learners at the school who had absented themselves. The school indicated that the police committed to dispatching a team of social crime officers to engage the school learners on anti-social challenges at the school.
The incident occurred in the aftermath of a crime summit which committed to a collaborative anti-crime strategy and police spokesperson Captain Stephen Malatji calling on residents to fulfil their pledge to work with law enforcement agencies to rid the township of unrelenting crime.
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