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We 00'8 A8 We 00'8 A8 d Z 0 school Education Reporter ATTENDANCE at black schools in the Western Cape ranged between 30 and 50 percent yesterday dt the start of the third term as most pupils countrywide returned to face the introduction of new security measures. According to a spokesman for the Port Elizabeth regional office of the Department of Education and Training, attendance varied between 30 and 50 percent. -DET 18 of their colleagues were still in detention. Thelma Tuch reports from Johannesburg that according to the DET, at least 80 percent of pu,pils returned to school, yesterday. This means that about 340 000 of the 1,7-million. pupils stayed away countrywide. 'Outsiders' At some schools there was a reluctance to re-. register and isolated I"AS NIFlS S9NIIlUIV] VINOOIZ 9180 t, The return to school curred where pupils by black pupils was post- were confronted by outponed for two weeks by siders, the DET said. the DET to formulate measures to ensure "a There was a total SYM return to normality". stayaway from schools in Duduza, the regional diHIM No reasons -rector of the Highveld Soraregion, ?Ar 3 H Booysen, NO INVONd In terms of new emer- said. There are nine pri93AI S gency regulations, the mary and two secondary DET is empowered to schools in the township. VINO2IlZ bar a pupil from re- reg- In Tembisa, near istering, without rea- Kempton Park, about 40 sons, and a principal percent of pupils ar" could place a pupil in rived at the four secon= W the class in line with dary and 26 primary awotsni Ud Sawd . 0 , their previous scholastic schools but, according to achievement. Mr Booysen, many of Pupils would also be them left before the end compelled to wear iden- of the day. tity cards and schools would be fenced in and 90 percent security guards pro- In the other East Rand vided. townships of Katlehong, * Attendance at Wattville, Daveyton, coloured schools varied KwaThema, Vosloosrus, with many reporting nor- Thokoza and Tsakane, mal activities, attendance was well * Mid-year examina- over 90 percent. tions started as planned Pupils trickled back to at the University of the school in Soweto, reWestern Cape yesterday ports Sophie Tema. with no disruptions re- Pupils in uniform were seen at several schools in the townships, Detention except at Diepkloof However, students at where there seemed to woisrm dad &O'd * the Theological School be a complete stayaway. decided at a meeting Attendance in-Durban yesterday not to write was normal, according to exams because at least DET officials. sawo±lp aid & a 09o = S)DOIs AA =ffi.