Charges against pupils for their EFF tweet on hold pending investigation
Charges against the Maritzburg College boys whose tweet about the EFF caused a furore have been put on hold‚ pending a probe by the provincial education department into racism
Charges against three pupils whose tweet caused a furore at one of SA’s oldest schools have been put on hold‚ pending an investigation by he provincial education department into racism.On Friday‚ the parents of three Maritzburg College pupils were informed that their sons were facing several discipline-related charges regarding a picture posted on social media‚ in which the three posed in school uniform holding T-shirts with the words: "EFF our last hope of getting our land back." The post sparked huge outcry‚ with the EFF vowing to take action against the school.EFF national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the party rejected the school’s action as "pure apartheid‚ Nazi and colonial thinking". He said charging the boys was in direct violation of the Constitution.On Monday‚ the provincial education department met the school’s governing body and principal.Department spokesman Muzi Mahlambi said: "The school has not dropped the charges‚ but put everything on hold‚ pending the conclusio...
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