THE INSIDER: Still waters run confusingly deep
News reports about a student protest somewhere in downtown Joburg are as clear as mud
Somewhere in downtown Joburg on Wednesday, school pupils staged a protest march about something. News reports about the protest were as clear as mud but one, headlined in an online account "Cosas demands still water for Gauteng schools", said about 5,000 pupils caused havoc in downtown Joburg during a protest against the education department. It said "the school kids" were marching to the department to hand over a memorandum, adding that the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) said it knew nothing about the protest. An education department spokesman was quoted as saying 500 pupils were present during the handover of the memorandum. So where were the other 4,500? Another official noted that the metro police had escorted about 1,000 of them to Park Station to board trains to go home. "Around 4‚000 others‚ however‚ remained behind. We have no idea what their march was about‚" metro police spokeswoman Edna Mamonyane was reported to have said. Cosas stated on its Facebook page it ...
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