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Bogus school shutdown: SAPS crack the whip on unregistered classrooms
The Department of Education and SAPS closed down the Everest College school in Mpumalanga on Tuesday as it had not properly registered.
The Department of Education in Mpumalanga has shut down an independent school in the province that failed to register correctly, with the students currently enrolled there told to apply for admission into a different place of learning.
South African Police service (SAPS) spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said in a statement on Wednesday 12 May that Everest College in Mbombela was was established, maintained and operated without being registered by the Department of Education, meaning that it is in defiance of the South African Schools’ Act.