Parents ask media to leave Parktown Boys’ High meeting
Members of the media was asked to leave a meeting between parents at Parktown Boys’ High School and Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi.
The parents of pupils at the school said they did not feel comfortable raising issues in front of the media, with some also blaming the media for not reporting accurately on the events at the orientation camp.
The meeting came in the wake of the death of 13-year-old Enock Mpianzi, who died during a grade 8 orientation camp on Brits last week.
The department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona said most parents did not feel comfortable with the media presence.
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“We wanted to be as open as possible... but the parents felt ‘this is our meeting, this are our children’.”
The MEC is meeting with parents after announcing earlier on Friday that his department hired an independent forensic law firm Harris Nupen Molebatsi Inc. to investigate Mpianzi’s death.
Lesufi also suspended the school’s principle Malcolm Williams, along with the education district officials who were deemed negligent in handling the applications for the trip.