An image contained in the report showing the route taken by pupils on the Crocodile River.A teacher who had been on previous Parktown Boys' High camps has acknowledged that pupils did not use life jackets even though they were engaged in dangerous water activities.
She said the water was very shallow and, in fact, many of the rafts fell apart. When she was asked: “So you didn’t think that they needed life jackets?” She replied “No”. “I didn’t think the stretcher race would end in the river ... I thought that they would then reinforce their stretchers ... you know, dismantle what they had built and use those materials to then build a raft. That was my assumption.”Nyati Bush and Riverbreak manager Anton Knoetze was recorded in the report as saying the lodge did not keep life jackets for river rafting.
“ ... we keep life jackets for tubing, not this activity.” When asked whether he knew that pupils had been stranded on an island in the river and had to be rescued by facilitators, he said: “I don’t know about islands.”“We make this finding in view of the fact that there have been four deaths of learners at that camp since 1999.
“The actions of Nyati, its manager and its facilitators in simply allowing over 200 learners to enter into a river without life jackets in which the conditions were clearly risky and dangerous, is outrageous and reckless,” said the report.
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