Two desperate matriculants strip and risk their lives to write exam on other side of submerged bridge

DON’T FENCE ME IN: Pupils in Qaga village in King William’s Town are trapped by the raging stream, which has flooded the bridge Picture: SIBONGILE NGALWA
DON’T FENCE ME IN: Pupils in Qaga village in King William’s Town are trapped by the raging stream, which has flooded the bridge Picture: SIBONGILE NGALWA
More than 30 pupils from a King William’s Town high school could not write their exams yesterday because of a flooded bridge.

Two Grade 12 pupils braved the shoulder-high water and managed to make it in time for their isiXhosa Paper 3 exam at Toise Senior Secondary School in Qaga village.

The two took off their school uniforms, put them in packets and, using sticks to balance in the water, managed to successfully cross the bridge.

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