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News24 reports that an Eastern Cape school principal, who was arrested for allegedly forcing a child to retrieve his cellphone from a pit toilet, has been fired.
On Tuesday, the provincial education department confirmed that the Luthuthu Junior Secondary School principal, Lubeko Mgandela, had been found guilty and sacked, following a disciplinary hearing. The dismissal comes three months after Mgandela was placed on precautionary suspension to allow the department to investigate the incident. It is alleged that he accidentally dropped his cellphone into a staff pit latrine on 1 March while he was relieving himself. He then allegedly instructed pupils to use a rope to lower an 11-year-old pupil into the pit toilet to recover the device. The child apparently left the school after the incident covered in faeces and highly embarrassed. Mgandela is expected to appear in the Tsolo Magistrate's Court on 21 July for the start of a child abuse trial. Eastern Cape police initially arrested him for attempted murder, but the charge was later changed to child abuse.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Malibongwe Dayimani at News24
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