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Is society failing school bullying?

The rising phenomenon of bullying is posing enormous challenges to the school educational system causing negative effect on academic stability, students’ health, well-being and safety.

Students who are bullied usually have poor academic performance as their interest and participation in school decreases. Bullying has also been named as one of the reasons why some students drop out of schools.

For years, the bullying trend has been going on within schools as bullies continue to terrorise other students without fear.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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