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SAHRC hearings: The lies and incompetence behind bullying and crimes in schools
Fearful principals; suicidal, bullied children; lack of proper access to vital databases listing unsuitable teachers; unresponsive government departments. These factors show the lack of commitment to dealing with corporal punishment, bullying and sexual relations between teachers and learners in this country. Those people who claim that they are fighting this triple challenge are merely paying lip service.
A video of a learner being bullied or a teacher administering corporal punishment will emerge again on social media, just as it did with Lufuno Mavhunga, who later killed herself. There will be more public outrage; yet again, hashtags will be created and trend on Twitter. Politicians will condemn the situation, but that is as far as it will go. Life will continue as usual until the next incident.
Principals put lid on learner abuse
22 May 2021
Pervasive: A video of Lufuno Mavhunga being bullied at school went viral on social media. She took her life a day after the incident
Between sobs, she spoke of how all four of her children are bullied at school.
Her sister’s child, who she adopted after the father died in December and whose mother is mentally impaired, was being called “fatty boom boom” and “tshibumba” by other children at the school.
Her eight-year-old son has to share half of his pocket money with the school bully, she said.
Ravuku’s children had resorted to stealing pens from her handbag to placate bullies, who would otherwise take their money. “My children never used to go through my bag,” she said.
Mashudu Ramulumo of the SA Principals' Association admitted at an SAHRC hearing in Limpopo that principals were not reporting sexual relations between teachers and pupils.