SowetanLive reports that police were called on Wednesday morning to disperse a group of residents from a nearby village who had blocked the entrance to Hilton College in KwaZulu-Natal.

The residents said they had been holding back-to-back meetings with the headmaster of SA’s most expensive school, whom they claimed had promised them jobs but who reneged on the promise on Tuesday. Angry residents from the village went to the school early in the morning and initially blocked the gate, preventing employees from entering. When police removed the protesting residents, they closed the road with logs and rocks. The police eventually managed to disperse them and workers were able to gain entrance to the school.

The land on which Hilton College is built is subject to a land claim by the surrounding community that says it was forcefully removed more than 100 years ago. According to a local resident, the residents’ great-grandparents had availed land for the school to be built, yet it was hiring people from outside the community of Hilton College village while they remained unemployed. The school’s headmaster, George Harris, indicated: “The school continues to engage with the disaffected people in an attempt to find a feasible solution.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Botho Molosankwe at SowetanLive

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