Grade 8 history pupils at Ntsika Secondary School in Grahamstown staged an awareness campaign on Friday 9 May about the abduction of nearly 300 school girls from a village in Nigeria last month.
Grade 8 history pupils at Ntsika Secondary School in Grahamstown staged an awareness campaign on Friday 9 May about the abduction of nearly 300 school girls from a village in Nigeria last month.
During their breaktime, the Ntsika pupils held up handmade posters explaining the girls' plight and protesting against slavery.
On April 14, Boko Haram militants abducted 276 pupils from the Government Girls' Secondary School in Chibok, around 375km from the capital of Abuja. The girls have not been seen since and it is believed they have been split up.
Meanwhile, girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, has made an international call urging the world not to stay silent over the abduction.
 | Sinazo Lewu, left, a pupil at Ntsika Secondary School, and three of her classmates (Kamvelihle Buwa, Zintie Nospayi and Mgxoteni Limphu – not pictured) hold up posters at the school during breaktime on Friday. The Grade 8 pupils were raising awareness among their fellow pupils about the abduction of 276 girls from a school in Nigeria last month. Photo: Stephen Penney |
The Pakistani schoolgirl, who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, told the BBC, "If we remain silent then this will spread, this will happen more and more and more." Malala was shot in 2012 for campaigning for girls' education.
Principal of Ntsika Madeleine Schoeman said she was proud of the pupils, who volunteered to raise awareness with their fellow pupils with the help of their history teacher, Xoliswa Lungile-Ralo.
