TimesLive reports that a female teacher had to be escorted out of a Johannesburg school by police on Monday after angry parents tried to forcibly remove her for telling a pupil’s granny she “did not like coloureds”.

A parent shouted “you racist pig” as the educator left the Fred Norman Secondary School in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, in a police vehicle. During an ugly confrontation between the teacher and a Grade 11 pupil’s grandmother on Friday, the teacher told her: “I will never wake up liking coloureds like you because you guys are rude; you guys don’t have manners.” In a three-minute video clip that has gone viral, the teacher shouted at the elderly woman: “You will come and teach that trashy child of yours.” She also swore at the woman in Zulu and called her “trash”. In the video the granny can be seen as well shouting at the teacher, while pupils stood on their desks and watched the incident. Gauteng education department spokesman Steve Mabona confirmed that the teacher had been removed from the school as a “precaution” until further notice. “We have launched an investigation into circumstances surrounding this incident and, as such, the outcome will be communicated in due course,” he advised.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Prega Govender at TimesLive
• Read too, Teacher suspended following altercation with parent at school, at The Citizen
• En ook, Onderwyser vir eers verwyder ná bekgeveg met ouer, by Maroela Media

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