A school principal in
Swaziland has been accused of demanding money from pupils to stop him expelling
them for theft.
He said he did this because
schools were no longer allowed to ‘lash’ misbehaving pupils.
Three boys were accused of
stealing two maize cobs at Nkiliji High School, which they then shared among
themselves.
The principal was reported
to the Regional Education Office for allegedly demanding E1,000 from each of
them, before they would be allowed back in class. The boys’ parents were unable
to pay. In Swaziland, seven in ten of the 1.3 million population have incomes
less than E26 a day. US$2 a day.
The Swazi
Observer newspaper reported on Monday (5 March 2017) that the principal was
infuriated with the parents for reporting him. He reportedly ‘asked that he be
allowed to give the learners lashes as [a] form of punishment’.
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