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The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered the Gauteng department of education to reinstate Parktown Boys’ High School principal Malcolm Williams. (Image via Facebook)

Parktown Boys’ principal to be reinstated after losing job over Enock Mpianzi’s death

Gauteng department of education says it is disappointed with the education bargaining counsel’s order to reinstate Malcolm Williams

The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered the Gauteng department of education to reinstate Parktown Boys’ High School principal Malcolm Williams. (Image via Facebook)

Parktown Boys’ High principal fired for tragic death of Enoch Mpianzi

Malcolm Williams was found to have sent schoolboys on an unauthorised trip and failed to ensure the correct roll-call procedures were followed

Pierre Le Roux (white) of South Africa is challenged by Evangelos Ioannis Delakas (blue) of Greece during the Men’s Water Polo, Group C preliminary match between South Africa and Greece on day six of the Budapest 2017 FINA World Championships on July 19, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.  (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

School polo coach in hot water for calling schoolgirls ‘strippers’

Former Springbok and current school water polo coach Pierre le Roux has a litany of complaints against him, from body shaming and bullying to being racist to learners

Winnie Ndlovu was on her way from work and still waiting for a taxi home, when she was shot in the face with a rubber bullet. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Covid-19 lockdown chaos for homeless people left in limbo

Bullets also fired indiscriminately at people in the inner city, homeless or not

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Teachers, lodge were negligent in Mpianzi’s death — report

Detailing the terror of children struggling without lifejackets after their rafts broke apart, the report said that teachers were distracted and contributed to the death of a…

The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered the Gauteng department of education to reinstate Parktown Boys’ High School principal Malcolm Williams. (Image via Facebook)

Lesufi suspends Parktown Boys’ principal after student’s death

Malcolm Williams has been suspended following the death of grade 8 learner Enoch Mpianzi

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We are failing our children

Ten infants died at Tembisa hospital at the end of last year. The health department tells us this it is more than likely as a result of Klebsiella pneumoniae. The infections, all…

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Parents must participate in schools to protect their children

Last week my helper’s daughter started grade 8 at a girls’ high school in Soweto. She told her mother years before going to high school that she wanted to attend a girls school…

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We need to ask awkward questions about our schools

Ignore the language used in brochures and on open days and be vigilant about the details

Parktown Boys’ High School’s former assistant water polo coach and housemaster‚ Collan Rex‚ who was found guilty of assault and sexual assault on September 14 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Masi Losi/Sowetan/Gallo)

Former Parktown Boys’ High School assistant coach gets 23 years in jail

Collan Rex pleaded guilty to 144 counts of sexual assault and 12 counts of common assault

Collan Rex’s sentencing was postponed because a report was incomplete. His victims’ families are enraged by the social workers’ handling of the case. (Alaister Russell/ Gallo Images/Sowetan)

More trauma for abused schoolboys

Parktown Boys’ High parents are angry with the way social workers have handled the case

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Schools must take the long walk of reform

Many private and former Model C schools may look good, but they are rotten to the core

Medical specialist Kevin Rebe said the Parktown Boys High’s policy was “probably outdated and not based on the latest evidence”.

Parktown Boys’ teacher to be held accountable for alleged racist rant

An art teacher, who has resigned from the school, allegedly threatened to blow up the boarding house and referred to his pupils as monkeys

Parktown boys assault case dropped

A case against a group of Parktown Boys high school pupils facing assault charges related to an initiation ceremony has been struck of the court roll.

Parktown Boys’ High pupils back in court

The 12 Parktown Boys’ High School pupils accused of assaulting a junior pupil at their school are expected to appear again in court on Thursday.

Case against Parktown pupils postponed

A case against 12 Parktown Boys’ High School pupils accused of assaulting their junior schoolmates was postponed on Friday.

Education dept to probe arrest of Parktown schoolboys

The Gauteng department of education will investigate the arrests of 11 schoolboys accused of assaulting other pupils in an initiation ceremony.