SowetanLive reports that a grade 8 teacher has been suspended from school and faces disciplinary action after nyaope was allegedly found in his bag during a police raid.  

The 58-year-old teacher at Crystal Park High School in Benoni, on the East Rand, was suspended on Thursday last week following the alleged incident.  He allegedly confessed to giving his bag to a pupil who was caught by police with the drugs.  Three other pupils were also suspended after they were allegedly found in possession of drugs.  Police spokesperson Captain Nomsa Sekele said they were waiting for laboratory results to confirm the drugs.  She advised that the teacher had not been arrested, but investigations were under way.  The teacher now faces disciplinary action, but parents of pupils at the school are concerned that he has not been arrested.  According to the teacher’s colleagues, he claimed he had confiscated the drugs from pupils two days before the police raid and kept them in his bag.  A grade 12 teacher observed that the school has been battling with a problem of violence and pupils abusing drugs.  "We catch learners with dagga, nyaope and cigarettes every day.  It is very difficult to manage them because most of these learners do not stop bringing them to the school," she stated.

• Read the full original of this report by Promise Marupeng at SowetanLive

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