Claims of racism are at the centre of protests outside a primary school in South Africa which has left at least six people wounded.
Police officers fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesting parents outside Roodepoort Primary School which had earlier been shut yesterday by the Gauteng Department of Education (GED) in a bid to stop clashes between two factions of parents within the local community.
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Following the school's closure, one of the factions began protesting because they wanted the school re-opened. They tried to break into the school and blocked children from boarding buses provided to take them to alternative schools - forcing the police to fire rubber bullets in a bid to disperse the protesters.
Unrest at the school has been simmering for months over probes into corruption and racism in the appointment of a black principal and her two deputies.
Coloured parents, a term that in South Africa refers mainly to mixed-race people, say the principal mishandled school funds and her appointment didn't follow due process.
An investigation by the GED said there had been no wrongdoing, prompting fights between parents and violence towards teachers.
The GED says the coloured communities are causing unrest because they want a coloured principal at the school.
Video footage from Netwerk24's Gys Visser captured some scenes from the protests with one parent telling police: "If you going to shoot me then you must shoot me dead, because I will f***ing hunt you boy."