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A Uitenhage learner has reportedly committed suicide.
Full details are not yet available but its understood the youth was a learner at McCarthy High School in the town.
His death comes on the day that thousands of learners and parents are marching to the Department of Education to present a memorandum of demands.
These centre around teacher shortages, the non-payment of temporary teachers and poor infrastructure at schools.
The protesters will move towards the Department of Education to hand over their demands.