Alex Matlala
Alex Matlala
Classes resumed yesterday at beleaguered Sewela-Batho High School in Limpopo after angry parents and pupils forced it to be locked on Monday.
This followed an agreement between the community and the education department at a meeting yesterday.
Classes at the school in Monte Christo village were disrupted last Thursday.
Pupils and parents took issue at the death of a pupil who committed suicide after being ordered to repeat a grade for the third time.
The two parties at the meeting agreed in principle that the school principal, Johanna Mokoka, and a teacher, Samuel Sekgota, be forbidden from entering the school premises again.
The parties also agreed that an acting principal and a new teacher would be brought to the school to replace the barred teachers.
Tension at the school was triggered by the discovery of the body of the Grade 9 pupil who was found hanging from a tree on a mountain near the school last Wednesday.
Clarence Mojela, 19, was found dead after he was allegedly slapped in the face by a class teacher, after a protracted argument, the day before.
In an attempt to force him to a lower grade, the teacher allegedly slapped Mojela, a move that sparked a row at the school.
Mojela had allegedly forged his end-of-year report to reflect that he had passed Grade 9.
Education department spokesman, Ndo Mangala, applauded the move by parents to allow learning to resume.
Teaching back at troubled school
Alex Matlala
Alex Matlala
Classes resumed yesterday at beleaguered Sewela-Batho High School in Limpopo after angry parents and pupils forced it to be locked on Monday.
This followed an agreement between the community and the education department at a meeting yesterday.
Classes at the school in Monte Christo village were disrupted last Thursday.
Pupils and parents took issue at the death of a pupil who committed suicide after being ordered to repeat a grade for the third time.
The two parties at the meeting agreed in principle that the school principal, Johanna Mokoka, and a teacher, Samuel Sekgota, be forbidden from entering the school premises again.
The parties also agreed that an acting principal and a new teacher would be brought to the school to replace the barred teachers.
Tension at the school was triggered by the discovery of the body of the Grade 9 pupil who was found hanging from a tree on a mountain near the school last Wednesday.
Clarence Mojela, 19, was found dead after he was allegedly slapped in the face by a class teacher, after a protracted argument, the day before.
In an attempt to force him to a lower grade, the teacher allegedly slapped Mojela, a move that sparked a row at the school.
Mojela had allegedly forged his end-of-year report to reflect that he had passed Grade 9.
Education department spokesman, Ndo Mangala, applauded the move by parents to allow learning to resume.