A high school principal in Vuwani, Limpopo, is living in fear after residents threatened to attack her should she return to the school she has managed for 15 years.The principal, who asked to remain anonymous, along with 22 teachers and 697 pupils, has not been to the school in the past three weeks.Vuwani residents took to the streets after a high court ruling that the area fall under the newly established Malamulele municipality. More than 20 schools were torched in the ensuing protests, and about 50 schools were closed.The principal told The Times that she started receiving threats two weeks after the protests simmered down. For many pupils in Vuwani there is no reprieveThe lives of about 2,600 matrics in Vuwani are in limbo after at least 70 schools were forced to close completely by the wave of violent protests in the Limpopo district and nearly 30 others were partly damaged.Vuwani kids face matric rewriteMore than 2600 Grade 12 pupils in the trouble-torn town of Vuwani in Limpopo might have to repeatmatric if they do not return to class soon, the Department of Basic Education has warned."The thugs confronted my pupils, telling them to tell me that they saw I was still going to school and threatened to burn their homes and attack me. I am now very afraid of what they might do," she said.Limpopo education spokesman Naledzani Rasila said the department's catch-up programme had to be postponed several times."We appeal to community members to allow children and teachers to go back to school," said Rasila.More than 2000 matric pupils have been affected by the intimidation...