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TimesLIVE reports that the Gauteng Department of Education (GDoE) has suspended Pretoria High School for Girls principal Phillipa Erasmus pending investigations of alleged racism at the school.
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane indicated this was a precautionary suspension that would take effect immediately. Erasmus has been barred from communicating with pupils, teachers and parents. One of the deputy principals will stand in as acting principal. Chiloane said they anticipated the matter would be concluded in three months. He advised that preliminary findings were that the matter was reported as early as 2023, but no action was taken by the school. “The principal knew about this matter from last year. There was a report and there was no action taken then. That's where we are with the principal – that you knew and you knew the gravity of the situation and you left it,” he said. About 12 pupils at the school have been suspended “for racism”. According to the GDoE, this was triggered by alleged racial connotations, micro-aggressions and complaints about black pupils that were ventilated through a WhatsApp group consisting of white pupils. The conversations allegedly included racial commentary about the ongoing dissatisfaction among black pupils regarding issues they faced at the school, which were alluded to as being insignificant. In 2016, the school was embroiled in an earlier racism saga when black pupils accused the school of having rules that were discriminatory against black girls' hair.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Shonisani Tshikalange at TimesLIVE
- Read too, Pretoria High School for Girls principal suspended amid racial discrimination probe, at News24
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