Arrest protest leaders holding NC kids to ransom - De Lille
Note to editors: The following is a speech extract from Patricia De Lille's address to a Democratic Alliance Women's Network (DAWN) meeting in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on Saturday September 8 2012.
The collective failure of Acting Premier Grizelda Cjiekella and her government to show leadership on ending the protests keeping 16 000 children out of school must end immediately.
For three months the Premier's office has watched this crisis grow so big that it now threatens the collapse of the education system in the John Taole Gaetsewe district.
It has been more than a week since the DA laid criminal charges against the leaders of the protests running the criminal disruption of schooling.
We demand that those behind the organized intimidation of school-children be arrested immediately.