Tantyi Primary writing competition

Today Reyhana, Babongile, Annetjie and Amy went back to Tantyi Primary to put up the design banner of the children's drawings, as well as to give the prizes to the winners of the writing competition.

The writing competition was held earlier on this term. The grade five and grade six learners were asked to write a short paragraph about crime in their community. The children in their writing suggested possible solutions for crime.

The winning boy is Stofile Nkoskhona.
He wrote:

Children in Hlalani are smoking in an early age. They like to do robbery and get drunk in taverns.
There was a house breaking two weeks ago and a 17-year-old was arrested with 24-year-old man.
Robbery has been a major problem here in Hlalani mostly in South Africa.
Only if children would go to school properly crime may be less.

The winning girl is a grade 5 learner, Anathi Tshongweni. She wrote:

Crime in my area
Rape is not a good thing.
There are a lot of criminals in the world.
In my street most people make murder.
Andile is making crime.
At South Africa there are many shoplifting. If you are of court case you are at big trouble.

Thulisa Moses wrote:

The corruption is very very big in the location in Grahamstown and the corruption was that one in young men and the young men were very wrong even when go to the other location the Phone was switch off when switch on the young men please sister give the phone. Even at home at night the gate was close if it's not close the young come to take something to buy for chicks something that one she is very expensive to go to chicks. The corruption is very very wrong really in the Grahamstown.

Another learner wrote:

There was three men. They went to the shop in o street. One bought two cigarettes. When my F. take change they put knife in my F. neck. Sprey sprey gun my f. is can't see other ones came in the shop and close this shop take money and food and ran. In came cops we don't know who called the cops. There was four boys like to sit in that shop. Cops take that boy to the police station. By 3 o 'Clock they come one of the robbers is in jail.

Sinethemba Jacobs wrote:

Crime: There are five men. They went to the town and manager running to the room and then use chocolate and airtime a manager use gun and use phone the police and then the man is run for police.

Solutions: The police patrol, no robbing manager, no robbing town, no robbing chocolate and airtime. The police patrol the town and the manager has burglar bars to the window.


We let the children tell it how it is.