If school soccer and rugby is being shut down in winter 2009, can we really expect a soccer world cup in winter 2010

“Our school has been on hold for two weeks,” he said. “We can’t carry on teaching at full steam with this number of absentees.” Y esterday, 15percent of their pupils were absent.

He said his school, like all others in the district, had received a circular effectively banning sports until further notice.

clipped from www.dispatch.co.za ALL schools in the King William’s Town education district have been banned from holding sporting activities in an effort to stem the number of swine flu infections. Dale College Boy’s Primary School and Kingsridge High School for Girls (KHS) have each reported seven cases of swine flu, while an Alice school currently has four children hospitalised with symptoms. The Eastern Cape’s number of infections is rising, with the provincial Health Department reporting 195 cases of swine flu since July. East London tops the infections with 124 cases. Dale Junior headmaster Grant Williams said two pupils among the seven confirmed cases had been to Johannesburg. The boys were all between Grade R and Grade 7. Williams said he believed the worst was over. “We had a 40 percent absentee rate last week while this week it is at 10 percent,” he said. But at Dale College Boys’ High school, principal Mike Eddy said he was battling high absenteeism.