Alleged racism at school to be investigated
The first day back at school yesterday was marred by a racism incident at a North West school. The province's Education MEC and other politicians will visit the school today to investigated allegations that grade R learners were separated by race.
'On behalf of the department, I wish to condemn in its strongest terms any allegation of racism in our schools which contradict the Constitution of our country,'
North West Education and Sport Development MEC Sello Lehari is quoted as saying in a TimesLIVE report. The mother of a grade R learner from Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke in Schweizer-Reneke was fuming after a picture showed her child and three other black children sitting separately from the white children in their class.
The class teacher shared the photo on the school’s WhatsApp group. The picture showed the 18 white learners in the classroom all occupying a single large desk in the middle of the classroom, while the four black children in the class occupied one desk in a corner at the far end of the classroom.
Lehari said department sent officials to investigate the complaint when they heard about it.
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