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The Gauteng provincial minister for education (MEC) Matome Chiloane will appoint an independent law firm to assist the department with its investigation into the suicide of a pupil after an alleged bullying incident at a South African school.

Khehlekile Primary School grade 6 pupil Sibusiso Mbatha on Monday hanged himself in the family bathroom. He was apparently distraught over a bullying incident allegedly instigated by a teacher.

According to the family, the teacher allegedly discriminated against the boy because of his sexual orientation. He allegedly told Mbatha, who was involved in a physical altercation with another pupil, to leave his “gayism” outside the school gate.

“This kind of derogatory and discriminatory language is unacceptable and should never be tolerated within the walls of an educational institution,” said family spokesperson Nozipho Nkosi.

Chiloane visited the family on Thursday to offer his condolences and .

“We will be appointing an independent law firm to give us a report as to what had transpired in this situation.

“At the centre of the report is obviously to investigate those who may have done wrong and those who should be held able but lastly, more importantly, is the recommendation that will assist the department to ensure that such incidents never happen again in our schools.

“The family is saying that the teacher came and is confessing that he did say these particular words,” he said, adding this would be investigated.

“Those are words that obviously should not have been said. You don't say that because those are discriminatory words. That goes against the values and principles that are outlined, not only in our constitution but also within the school code of conduct.”

He said he would give the law firm a timeframe to report back on its findings.

He assured the family they would also get to see the report.

To help with children's mental health issues in the wake of several recent suicides, Matome said the department had ramped up its psychosocial unit and partnered with NGOs. This included establishing boxes where pupils could insert the name of the person bullying them.

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Na ajebo children Dey mostly commit suicide because of bullies,wetin consign ajekpako with bully,when no bully poverty

South Africans will still find way to blame Nigerians for this

Who can read that Whatsapp chat?

wiseone28:
Who can read that Whatsapp chat?

TMKsouth:
The Gauteng provincial minister for education (MEC) Matome Chiloane will appoint an independent law firm to assist the department with its investigation into the suicide of a pupil after an alleged bullying incident at a South African school.

Khehlekile Primary School grade 6 pupil Sibusiso Mbatha on Monday hanged himself in the family bathroom. He was apparently distraught over a bullying incident allegedly instigated by a teacher.

According to the family, the teacher allegedly discriminated against the boy because of his sexual orientation. He allegedly told Mbatha, who was involved in a physical altercation with another pupil, to leave his “gayism” outside the school gate.

“This kind of derogatory and discriminatory language is unacceptable and should never be tolerated within the walls of an educational institution,” said family spokesperson Nozipho Nkosi.

Chiloane visited the family on Thursday to offer his condolences and .

“We will be appointing an independent law firm to give us a report as to what had transpired in this situation.

“At the centre of the report is obviously to investigate those who may have done wrong and those who should be held able but lastly, more importantly, is the recommendation that will assist the department to ensure that such incidents never happen again in our schools.

“The family is saying that the teacher came and is confessing that he did say these particular words,” he said, adding this would be investigated.

“Those are words that obviously should not have been said. You don't say that because those are discriminatory words. That goes against the values and principles that are outlined, not only in our constitution but also within the school code of conduct.”

He said he would give the law firm a timeframe to report back on its findings.

He assured the family they would also get to see the report.

To help with children's mental health issues in the wake of several recent suicides, Matome said the department had ramped up its psychosocial unit and partnered with NGOs. This included establishing boxes where pupils could insert the name of the person bullying them.

one less evil. May we not birth a demon

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The boy was obviously been bullied by his mates in school, the teacher told him to leave his gayism outside the school because that is obviously not what he was brought to school to learn, so how exactly is the teacher the cause of his death

May we not give birth to useless children

Fountainofyouth:
The boy is obviously been bullied by his mates in school, the teacher told him to leave his gayism outside the school because that is obviously not what he was brought to school to learn, so how exactly is the teacher the cause of his death

WTF?😳😳😳

SA should watch the standard of their education and also not allow these LGBTIDGAF
Shii to distract the young ones.

I could barely decipher what he wrote and he looks 12 or older?
Either you write well in your native language or write well in the official one.

A bụla ogbenye bụrụ amụsu.

TMKsouth:


WTF?😳😳😳

What happen to you?

TMKsouth:


WTF?😳😳😳

She's right...


🤨🤨🤨🤨

Ensa777:
SA should watch the standard of their education and also not allow these LGBTIDGAF
Shii to distract the young ones.

I could barely decipher what she wrote and she looks 12 or older?
Either you write in well in your native language or write well in the official one.

A bụla ogbenye bụrụ amụsu.

I thought he was a boy

😕😕

What’s the world turning into?

When I was in Primary 6,my whole thoughts was coming home to watch cartoon on Silverbird tv freekazoid,pinky and the brains etc
me and my brother don’t miss 4’o clock cartoons
I had no business with female folks talk more of fantasizing my fellow gender’s asshole

The world is going crazy

Fountainofyouth:
The boy was obviously been bullied by his mates in school, the teacher told him to leave his gayism outside the school because that is obviously not what he was brought to school to learn, so how exactly is the teacher the cause of his death

Are you serious??

A grade 6 pupil and a teacher is telling him that constantly.

Like how do you say that to a 10-12yr old boy.

Godoverevery:


Are you serious??

A grade 6 pupil and a teacher is telling him that constantly.

Like how do you say that to a 10-12yr old boy.

I don't understand, where is it written that the teacher said it constantly? Why exactly can't he tell a 10-12yr old boy that he should leave his gayism outside the school gate? Is that what he came to school to learn? Which straight kids has ever been traumatised to the extent of committing suicide because his or her teacher told him to leave his "straightness" outside the school gate? From the write-up, that kid is being bullied by his mates in school, the teachers bid that was added to it was certainly to create a buzz and a big deal on something that is unnecessary

What the parents and the school is supposed to focus on is how to stop bullying in schools, bullying that can happen to any kid regardless of their sexual orientation.

Fountainofyouth:



I don't understand, where is it written that the teacher said it constantly? Why exactly can't he tell a 10-12yr old boy that he should leave his gayism outside the school gate? Is that what he came to school to learn? Which straight kids has ever been traumatised to the extent of committing suicide because his or her teacher told him to leave his "straightness" outside the school gate? From the write-up, that kid is being bullied by his mates in school, the teachers bid that was added to it was certainly to create a buzz and a big deal on something that is unnecessary

What the parents and the school is supposed to focus on is how to stop bullying in schools, bullying that can happen to any kid regardless of their sexual orientation.

So if a male child is being bullied by his fellow mate cos he behaves feminine should the teacher compound it by also telling him those words.

The child didn't accuse his mate but clearly stated his class teacher in the whatapp chat posted.

Just because we are against gayism shouldn't mean we should lose common sense.....bullying in any form bad is a criminal offense.

The teacher telling him that is clearly a hate speech and only a heartless human won't see anything wrong with that.

Godoverevery:


So if a male child is being bullied by his fellow mate cos he behaves feminine should the teacher compound it by also telling him those words.

The child didn't accuse his mate but clearly stated his class teacher in the whatapp chat posted.

Just because we are against gayism shouldn't mean we should lose common sense.....bullying in any form bad is a criminal offense.

The teacher telling him that is clearly a hate speech and only a heartless human won't see anything wrong with that.

The teacher didn't compound anything, and what he said is not a hate speech, hate speech is when the teacher insults and degrade him because of his sexuality which is not what he did, he simply said leave it outside the school gate, very simple, the boy capitalised on what the teacher said because he expected the teacher to reprimand the other boy and leaving him blameless, we've all done that as a kid, when fighting and the other girl or boy wins, we expect our teacher to us fully since na we dem beat well.

And next time, use your common sense to at least Google the meaning of bullying, you do not know me to know if I'm against gayism or not and even at that, I wouldn't nonsense just to be seen ing the alphabet people.


Rip to the boy.

Fountainofyouth:


The teacher didn't compound anything, and what he said is not a hate speech, hate speech is when the teacher insults and degrade him because of his sexuality which is not what he did, he simply said leave it outside the school gate, very simple, the boy capitalised on what the teacher said because he expected the teacher to reprimand the other boy and leaving him blameless, we've all done that as a kid, when fighting and the other girl or boy wins, we expect our teacher to us fully since na we dem beat well.

And next time, use your common sense to at least Google the meaning of bullying, you do not know me to know if I'm against gayism or not and even at that, I wouldn't nonsense just to be seen ing the alphabet people.


Rip to the boy.

Since you know so much kindly post were the boy identified has been gay.

So any boy child who behave feminine is gay or the teacher told you he caught him engaging in gay stuff with other classmates??

Does the teacher even have any rights to accuse a boy child of gayism in a country like SA??

Once again only a heartless human being will a teacher telling **a grade 6 pupil to take is gayism outside the gate** what does a boy of 10-12yrs old even know.

Grade 6 pupils are between 10-12yr old.......a child shouldn't be hearing things like that.

Can a teacher have sexuallity discussion with a child?? Nawa ooo.

Godoverevery:


Since you know so much kindly post were the boy identified has been gay.

So any boy child who behave feminine is gay or the teacher told you he caught him engaging in gay stuff with other classmates??

Does the teacher even have any rights to accuse a boy child of gayism in a country like SA??

Once again only a heartless human being will a teacher telling **a grade 6 pupil to take is gayism outside the gate** what does a boy of 10-12yrs old even know.

Grade 6 pupils are between 10-12yr old.......a child shouldn't be hearing things like that.

Can a teacher have sexuallity discussion with a child?? Nawa ooo.

Is this guy serious at all?

Oh so now the boy may not be gay or the teacher accused him falsely, you like yo argue for arguement sake or what? were you not the one that earlier said the teacher's words is hate speech and criminal offense to the alphabet people? Where is it said that the boy is feminine? If you are ignorant own it instead of displaying it everywhere, homosexuality is legal is South Africa, if you had enlighten yourself on world news, you would know that countries practicing homosexuality have been authorised to teach students and kids on the basics starting from 5 years old.

It's simple, next time, if do not have any sensible counter argument, zip it and move on.

Fountainofyouth:
The boy was obviously been bullied by his mates in school, the teacher told him to leave his gayism outside the school because that is obviously not what he was brought to school to learn, so how exactly is the teacher the cause of his death

What kind of a heartless bigot are you? What concerns the teacher if he brings his queerness that's part of him to school? So it's ok for straight people to bring their straightness but queer people have to hide their queerness to make bigots like you happy?

Ensa777:
SA should watch the standard of their education and also not allow these LGBTIDGAF
Shii to distract the young ones.

I could barely decipher what he wrote and he looks 12 or older?
Either you write well in your native language or write well in the official one.

A bụla ogbenye bụrụ amụsu.

That's all you got from this? A bigot can truly never hide their stripes,the amount of hate in you is fiery

Couldntfigurean:
What’s the world turning into?

When I was in Primary 6,my whole thoughts was coming home to watch cartoon on Silverbird tv freekazoid,pinky and the brains etc
me and my brother don’t miss 4’o clock cartoons
I had no business with female folks talk more of fantasizing my fellow gender’s asshole

The world is going crazy

It could be that the boy was just feminine which the teacher took as homosexuality

Flamemignon1:

What kind of a heartless bigot are you? What concerns the teacher if he brings his queerness that's part of him to school? So it's ok for straight people to bring their straightness but queer people have to hide their queerness to make bigots like you happy?

Explain how straight children bring their straightness to school pls, with clear examples.

Fountainofyouth:



Explain how straight children bring their straightness to school pls, with clear examples.

Boys being masculine participating in masculine activities and girls being feminine,other way round and the bigots will get their pants twisted

Flamemignon1:

Boys being masculine participating in masculine activities and girls being feminine,other way round and the bigots will get their pants twisted

This is your example?

So homosexual people can't be masculine and participate in masculine activities? Feminine girls can't be homosexual? This is your definition of "bringing straightness to school"? Ever heard of "tomboy"? Does being a tomboy automatically makes someone homosexual? In the case of this thread, do you know what the boy did that made the teacher say he should keep his gayism outside the school?

You think you can guilt trip me with thrash talk that your kind usually use as your go-to form of victim hood? No where did I call you names, yet you do that to me unprovoked to score cheap points then expect me to agree with you against logical reasoning in this teacher's case? Na ment abi na ment

Fountainofyouth:


This is your example?

So homosexual people can't be masculine and participate in masculine activities? Feminine girls can't be homosexual? This is your definition of "bringing straightness to school"? Ever heard of "tomboy"? Does being a tomboy automatically makes someone homosexual? In the case of this thread, do you know what the boy did that made the teacher say he should keep his gayism outside the school?

You think you can guilt trip me with thrash talk that your kind usually use as your go-to form of victim hood? No where did I call you names, yet you do that to me unprovoked to score cheap points then expect me to agree with you against logical reasoning in this teacher's case? Na ment abi na ment

Just say you are an homophobe and you are happy with this news and keep it going,e no dey una work

Who started relating feminity,a gender attribute to sexuality? Who praises masculinity because its synonymous with power and discards feminity because it represents weakness hence why tomboys are rarely bullied? Straight people, whether the kid was gay or not,the teacher had no right to say something like that to a kid but go off and continue to justify hate