EWN reports that Gauteng Education Department MEC Panyaza Lesufi has welcomed the immediate suspension of a teacher at the Northriding Secondary School who has been accused of racism.

The white teacher was suspended after a video of an altercation with a black pupil emerged. The altercation took place on school grounds. The department said the incident involved a grade eight pupil who was apparently sprayed with sanitiser. The Northriding teacher apparently hurled racial slurs at pupils – including using the K-word. “Learners were being reprimanded by her and she started pelting insults and we were informed that she called them baboons,” said a Gauteng Education Department spokesperson. Lesufi visited the school and expressed disappointment at the alleged conduct of the teacher.

• Read the original of the report in the above regard by Edwin Ntshidi at EWN
• See too, Teacher suspended after alleged racial slur, on page 5 of Saturday Citizen of 8 May 2021

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