10 arrested during blitz at illegal schools in Ivory Park

Lesufi visited three branches of Wisdom English Private School as well as True Grace Christian School in the area on Thursday.

Police arrested ten school officials at the Wisdom school after they failed to produce the necessary immigration-related documentation.

They are expected to appear in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

Lesufi described the conditions as the schools as unacceptable.

"We cannot allow this to happen, it is completely unacceptable but we want to do it orderly without this disrupting the future of these children," he said.

Wisdom English Private School, which houses over 1000 pupils, has submitted forms to be recognised as an official learning institution.

But Lesufi said the school allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to the Department of Education.

"This is the future of a black child, you have just thrown it away. Because they cannot get a report, their academic credentials are unknown. After they pass grade 10 you don't know where they are going, they don't have proper doceument to prove they have studied what they have studied and they are going to a school that is illegal.”

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