[1] The following month, three youths were killed near the school by police officers who opened fire on protesters in the Trojan Horse Incident.

[6] The school defiantly re-opened on 17 September 1985 when the principal, Khalied Desai,[8] led teachers, uniformed students and parents who sang protest songs.

The students threw stones, built barricades and the police replied with armoured vehicles, tear gas, rubber bullets and the arrests of nearly 200 people.

[6] The state of emergency was extended to include Cape Town on 25 October 1985, giving the police and army greater powers to deal with instability in the area.

[6] On 15 October 1985 three male youths, aged 11, 15 and 21,[8] were killed by the police nearby in Belgravia Road in Athlone in what was called the Trojan Horse Incident.

[13] Police officers who had been hidden in crates on board the back of a truck opened fire on stone-throwing protesters.

[2][11] An inquest found that the police had behaved "unreasonably", but despite a private prosecution no sentences were imposed on the people involved.

[16] In 2012, the then principal Fazil Parker was involved in a dispute with the Department of Basic Education after he was given late notice that his teachers needed to mark national exams.