LILONGWE, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of pupils and students from primary and secondary schools in some parts of Malawi took to the streets in protest to the ongoing national strike by teachers over leave grant arrears.
The teachers through the Teachers' Union of Malawi (TUM) successfully have embarked on a stay-in since June 5, whereby the teachers went to work places but stayed in without working.
On Monday, in Malawi's Commercial City of Blantyre and in Balaka district in the south, primary school pupils and secondary school students mobilized themselves for demonstrations over the strike which has entered a second week.
Social media pictures of the protesting learners show burning motor vehicle tyres blocking the road while in some instances the protestors blocked the roads with rocks and logs.
Elsewhere in Balaka along the country's backbone road, M1, local media reported scores of pupils and parents having blocked the road in protest to the same.
The Malawi government is yet to respond to the teachers' national strike.
The teacher's strike came a few weeks before the Malawi School Certificate Exams which sees learners graduate from secondary school to college and university education.
Many fear the ongoing teachers' industrial action may jeopardize the national exams which are scheduled to commence on June 22.
