Picket at Parktown Boys' High as classes resume after Grade 8 pupil's death at orientation camp

Mpianzi is believed to have died during a river-rafting accident while on a school orientation camp for grade 8 pupils. The camp took place at Nyati Bush and Riverbreak lodge in the North West last week. A postmortem report is awaited and an independent inquiry has been instituted.

Natalie Ridgard, who was also at the school, said it was important to demand accountability from the school system. “ ... To tell the truth and look after our children better. We trust them to care for our children when we are not there.Ridgard, the mother of a 10-year-old a six-year-old, said it was important to teach children to say “no” to taking part in activities on orientation camps.

“If this is what is going to happen at schools, we need to teach our children to say no if they feel uncomfortable about doing something.”

All I ask is not the disturb the kids in class. We can not afford to not let our youth get an education. Please, please, please. I understand its an outpouring of hurt, but let our youth get the education they deserve.

This picketing is now becoming a racial issue, and it's traumatizing for the leaner m's, go pocket at laerskool bekker in Magaliesburg, a grade 7 had drowned on the premises of the hostel or at Lethabong high school in North West a kid drowned at sun city another field trip 😱😠

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