The Thabo Mbeki Foundation criticises the handling of racism allegations at Pretoria High School for Girls, finding none.
The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has criticised how allegations of racism at Pretoria High School for Girls were handled by the Gauteng education department, saying its investigation did not find “anything racist”.
“The delegation responded that it did not engage with Pretoria High School for Girls because of the chat room. Indeed, it said it had not dealt with anything arising from the chat room comments.”The principal was also suspended and her deputy moved to the district office. The principal is still on suspension.
The suspension of pupils was triggered by what was deemed a “racist group chat and bullying” and “disregard of repercussions for executives involved for their disregard of bullying and racism for nine months”. “We have also closely studied the comments by the chat group, independently, to determine whether these constituted manifestations and hate speech,” Mbeki said.“It is not necessarily correct that whenever the fissures among us, including of race, manifest at the school level, the automatic response must be punishment of the offender.
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