Gauteng Education MEC is concerned about gang-related violence affecting teaching and learning in Westbury [SOUND]

# Gauteng MEC for Education, Lebogang Maile, has expressed concern about the impact of ongoing gang-related gun violence in Westbury on learners, educators and the broader school community. Four people were shot dead, and one was injured over the weekend. One of those shot is a learner from R.W. Fick Secondary School. The department’s spokesperson, Onwabile Lubhelwana, says learners who missed their scheduled School-Based Assessment Common Papers and preliminary examinations as a result of the unsafe environment will be allowed to write: