Operation Dudula Blocks Foreign Children from South African Schools

Operation Dudula’s vigilante mobs have begun targeting schoolchildren. At improvised checkpoints outside public schools, members demand birth certificates and bar children without South African documents from entering classrooms. Reports describe six-year-olds suffering panic attacks and night terrors after being turned away. Activists are conducting house-to-house searches and storming classrooms to force principals to reveal lists of foreign-born students. Human rights groups and legal experts warn this violates the constitutional right to basic education. Educators call it a systematic destruction of childhood. Videos and eyewitness accounts show toddlers crying at school gates and parents pleading in vain. This campaign of exclusion threatens to sow lasting hatred in the Rainbow Nation.

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