No clarity around safety precautions in place at Parktown Boys' high school camp.
It was not immediately clear whether Parktown pupil Enoch Mpanza was wearing a life jacket when he drowned at an orientation camp in the North West. Stock photo.Did Enoch Mpianza and other grade 8 pupils from Parktown Boys' High who took part in a river-rafting exercise wear life jackets?
Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Friday: “I must confess that I am not aware. I was not briefed that the people who assisted the children had life jackets or were given safety measures. That part of the information was not provided as of now.” He was speaking at the school just hours after Mpianza’s body was recovered from the Crocodile River at a lodge in North West.Mpianza most likely died on the same day around 3pm.
“The children were divided into groups and they were given material to build their own rafts. They were going down the Crocodile River,” said police spokesperson Col Adele Myburgh.“It seems like the currents were quite strong and the last time the boy was seen is when some of his friends saw the raft overturn and the children fell into the water,” Myburgh said.
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