Flu Pandemic hits South African schools - Grey College affected, along with Pretoria Boys' High, Hoerskool Uitsig, Sutherland High School, Modiselle Primary School in Ga-Rankuwa, St Alban's College and the University of Pretoria (UP)

The rugby match between Pretoria Boys' High School and Grey College Bloemfontein, scheduled for tomorrow at Boys' High has been called off.

More than 300 pupils from Grey College have been hit by flu.

A Boys' High spokesman confirmed that hockey matches had also been cancelled.

Grey College headmaster Johan Volsteedt said it was with great disappointment that the rugby match could not go ahead.

"We have between 200 and 300 people infected with flu. We felt it was not a good idea to travel to Pretoria under these circumstances," said Volsteedt.

SHOOT: Obviously if hundreds of infections are happening in tens of schools around the country, there are in fact thousands of infections nationwide, if not tens of thousands. It makes the official figure of '700' look incredibly suspect. Stay alert people.

clipped from www.iol.co.za Pretoria schools have been hit by a wave of ordinary flu and the rapidly spreading swine flu with some of them closing down because of high absenteeism. Hoerskool Wonderboom is the latest to be hit, with about 300 students infected. A total of 11 cases of swine flu have been confirmed at the school. Although the school has not closed, it has distributed hundreds of face masks to pupils and teachers. Two cases of swine flu have also been confirmed at Laerskool Anton van Wouw, with Northridge Primary school also reporting that one of their pupils was recovering from the flu at home. Sutherland High School is one of the schools that has closed down due to high absenteeism as pupils suffer from flu. On Tuesday about 80 pupils from the Modiselle Primary School in Ga-Rankuwa had to be taken to hospital after an outbreak of flu and suspected measles. "Out of a school of 1 600 pupils, an estimated 300 have the flu.