Parktown Boys principal fired after Enock Mpianzi drowning

Williams’ axing comes after the lifeless body of 13-year-old Enock Mpianzi was retrieved from the Crocodile River during the school’s grade 8 orientation camp in Brits, North West, earlier this year. 

Williams is charged with two counts of misconduct relating to the trip that claimed Mpianzi's life in January. 

“It is alleged that Mr Willaims caused the school to undertake an excursion where they were taking grade 8s for an orientation in a place called Nyati Bush River camp in Brits and he also failed to make sure that there’s a roll call that was taken before the learners would undertake this process. So a lack of approval was given by the Department that cause him to be charged,” says the department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona. 

“The third misconduct is that he did not take necessary safety precautions which might have led to the death of on one learner, making sure that learners have safety vests and all of that.” 

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Williams was found not guilty on an allegation that he endangered the lives of the pupils by flouting safety rules.  

“He was found guilty on two charges – failing to obtain approval and that of making sure there was a roll call,” Mabona adds. 

He has five days to appeal the decision. 

“Mr Williams has a right to appeal. He can then appeal to the Member of the Executive Council within 5 working days within receiving his notice,” says Mabona. 

A 200-page forensic report into Mpianzi’s drowning death was released in March. 

The report made several recommendations to the Department on the action to be instituted against people that are implicated.