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News24 reports that the North West Education department has placed a teacher from the Geelhout Park Secondary school in Rustenburg on special leave following an incident earlier this month which left a pupil injured.
It is alleged that the teacher threw a water bottle at pupils while they were making their way to class after break. It hit one of the children and he sustained an injury on his head. The Grade 10 pupil was later rushed to the nearest clinic, where he received stitches for a deep cut on his head. Soon after the department was notified of the incident, officials from the Labour Unit were sent to the school to investigate the matter. Spokesperson for the North West Education department, Elias Malindi, advised: "The teacher was on leave from the day of the incident, February the 6th but was however placed on special leave from Friday the 14th of February for further investigations." The department is apparently set to send in a team from the Inclusive Education unit to provide counselling to all pupils who were affected by the incident. Malindi said the teacher would face a disciplinary hearing once the investigation by the department had been finalised.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nhlanhla Jele at News24
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