The Education Labour Relations Council took a decision to reinstate the Parktown Boys High School principal, Malcolm Williams, after he was was dismissed last year following the death of 13-year-old Enock Mpianzi who drowned in the Crocodile River during a school orientation trip.
Williams was fired after the death of Enock Mpianzi. The 13-year old grade 8 pupil died at the Nyati Bush and Riverbreak lodge near Brits during a school orientation camp.
After Enock Mpianzi s 2020 death, Parktown Boys High principal reinstated The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has voiced its ‘disappointment’ regarding ELRC s decision to reinstate Malcolm Williams and has indicated that it s studying the decision and seeking legal counsel on the matter. Flowers laid outside Parktown Boys High School on 20 January 2020 after one of its pupils Enock Mpianzi died at a school camp in the North West. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News
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JOHANNESBURG - The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has on Wednesday reinstated Malcolm Williams as principal of Parktown Boys’ High School in Johannesburg.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) said it was disappointed regarding ELRC s decision to reinstate Williams and added that it was studying the decision and seeking legal counsel on the matter.
Enoch Mpianzi: Parktown Boys’ principal to be reinstated
The Gauteng Education Department said it was disappointed by the decision but added that it was seeking legal counsel on the matter
The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered Gauteng’s Education Department to reinstate Malcolm Williams, the principal at Parktown Boys’ High School in Johannesburg. Williams was given the axe after being implicated in the drowning of Enoch Mpianzi, a 13-year-old pupil.
Mpianzi drowned while on an excursion planned by Parktown Boys High School, at the Nyati Bush and River Break Resort, in Brits, January 2020. It is believed that a makeshift raft he and fellow pupils had built in an exercise capsized in the Crocodile River.