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DispatchLIVE reports that an Eastern Cape school principal and his head of department have been suspended after admitting to destroying the examination papers of five pupils last year.
The education department said the two had told them that they destroyed the papers to punish the pupils for bunking extra classes in preparation for the final exams. The school is in Port St Johns. The pupils were in grade 12 and the papers were for technical science. The incident came to light after markers picked up that the names of the affected pupils were scratched off the register. Upon investigation, it transpired that the parcel containing the scripts had the number of the scripts changed from 31 to 26. Provincial education superintendent-general Temba Kojana said that the conduct of the teachers was unacceptable. One of the pupils, Mzuvukile Majali, spoke of his shock when the principal told him that his paper had been lost in Bhisho.
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