Pupils protest outside Jan Viljoen High School on 14 February.
News24 in-depth and profile writer James de Villiers writes white South Africans often struggle to see how social structures are exclusionary, and unless this changes, incidents such as the one at Hoërskool Jan Viljoen will continue to happen.
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