The growing number of violent incidents in South African schools is merely an effect of violence modelled on various spheres of society, delegates at a regional conference looking into the prevention of violence against women and children heard on Wednesday.
"Violence is a learned behaviour, a modelled behaviour, violence is normalised behaviour. What happens in communities goes to collapse in schools," facilitator Noxolo Thabatha explained to delegates attending the conference in Johannesburg titled "Prevention of violence against women and girls in Southern Africa - from Evidence to Action".
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