Girls at
a Swaziland school say they are forced to have intimate body searches before
they go to classes. Male guards touch their breasts and vaginas, they say.
In
happens on a daily basis at Dvokolwako High School, the Observer on Saturday newspaper reported (4 November 2017).
It reported
one girl saying, ‘The security man demanded to do thorough body search,
teasingly touching my breasts claiming I’m hiding a phone in my breasts and he
even touched my private parts saying we hide them in our undies.’ Other pupils
reported similar experiences.
The girls’
complaints were confirmed by vendors who
worked outside the school gates.
Dvokolwako High School Principal Sabelo Sibandze ‘laughed off’ the allegations, the newspaper reported.
Dvokolwako High School Principal Sabelo Sibandze ‘laughed off’ the allegations, the newspaper reported.
See also
TRUE HORROR OF SWAZI GIRLS’ LIVES
SEX VIOLENCE A ‘NATIONAL DISASTER’
SEX BILL HIGHLIGHTS CULTURE ISSUES
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