t seems that not even the spectre of a global pandemic can deter the simmering racial tensions at a number of South African schools. The proverbial gates of learning had barely opened to the new academic year, when the media reported on confrontations between black and white parents at Hoërskool Jan Viljoen in Randfontein, Gauteng; learners at Grosvenor Girls’ High School on the Bluff, Durban staging a protest against racism at the school; to a legal bid from the group ‘Trots DF Malan’ in Cape Town, seeking to prevent the school governing
