This comes after five matriculants were suspended earlier this year for using racial slurs on a private WhatsApp group. ECR_Newswatch
It comes after five matriculants were suspended earlier this year for using racial slurs on a private WhatsApp group.On Wednesday, in a statement, the SGB said during disciplinary hearings, the boys said they had not understood the connotation of the words used and apologised.Emotional and angry learners told the MEC Mbali Frazer how the five schoolboys were given a seven-day suspension but were allowed to return to school after three days.
A pupil told Frazer that the student who leaked the WhatsApp conversation was made to apologise, but the boys were never made to apologise for what they had done. The MEC meets with learners from the school. One of whom says that the 5 were suspended for 7 days, of which, they only spent 3 at home. The students tell the MEC that they want the 5 to publicly apologise and be expelled. In the msgs released, the K-word and N-word are used.
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