Two principals and a teacher in three Free State schools have been suspended amid allegations of racism, the provincial education department said.
“They were suspended on Friday,” department spokesperson Howard Ndaba said today.
“Following the report by the South African Human Rights Commission, we are doing our own internal investigation, which starts today. Within 30 days we hope to finish.”
The human rights commission investigated Francois Schoon, principal of the Dr Viljoen Combined School in Bloemfontein, Charles Liversage, principal of Christian de Wet Hoerskool in Dewetsdorp, and Trudy Erasmus, a life orientation teacher at St Helena Primary School in Welkom.
Pupils alleged staff called them racist, derogatory and belittling names, such as “kaffirs, baboons, monkeys, and little black bitches”.
They alleged that one of the teachers told them that “after seeing their ugly faces, he adores his dog even more because it is more beautiful than them”.
Pupils claimed that teachers told them to go back to schools in townships as they would never succeed in life and would end up like their parents who worked in chain stores…
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