Zweli Vesi, a matric pupil at Hoërskool Elspark in Germiston on the East Rand, is sitting at home waiting to be placed at another school after he was expelled by the provincial department of education at the beginning of year.

He was shortly reinstated after the family’s lawyer appealed his expulsion but his sister Dr Lerato Mpye has received a letter from the department confirming her brother’s expulsion...