School’s sex, drugs video a shocker

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Published Dec 13, 2014

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Johannesburg - Schools may have closed this week, but a Soweto HIV and Aids activist is reeling after seeing a sex and drug video created by pupils from her former high school.

Now, all that Mmabatho Raneke, 27, wants to do is return to Chris J Botha (CJB) Secondary School in Bosmont, to help the group of youngsters “before it is too late”.

“I always knew that the school had its problems but I didn’t ever think it would be quite this bad,” she said.

Raneke, from Orlando West, was diagnosed with HIV at 17, a year after she completed her matric at the school in 2004.

At the time, she recalls, that she had been “reckless”, dating a much older married man.

Her perception at the time was that she was young and would only live once. HIV and Aids were far from her mind.

Now, 10 years later, Raneke is an active part of the National Aids Council campaign and hopes that these pupils don’t go down the same path.

“When I saw that video, I cried. I ask myself if the pupils even use condoms. It is very scary,” she said.

The four-minute video clip, titled ‘Yizo Yizo’ went viral this week shows pupils having sex along the school’s corridor while in another they are fighting in the classroom. A third scene shows pupils sniffing what looks like white powder. ,

They have claimed the powder was ‘crushed up chalk’. The pupil who circulated the video has confessed to the police. The case is being investigated.

Saturday Star

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