Sifundiso Ndlovu Chronicle Reporter THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has instituted a probe into Wednesday’s fight between...
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has instituted a probe into Wednesday’s fight between a Milton High School teacher and a Sixth Form pupil, amid indications that anyone found guilty faces disciplinary action.Malvern Nyangani, 18, left Mathematics teacher Lawrence Ndebele with a bleeding nose as he retaliated after being whipped with a hosepipe, before being attacked with fists for wearing gloves.
Bulawayo Acting Provincial Education Director Richard Swene yesterday confirmed to Chronicle that investigations were underway and disciplinary action will follow in line with standing regulations.
“Disciplinary action will follow after the completion of the investigations in line with standing regulations,” said Swene.
He could not however reveal the possible sanctions that the teacher or the pupil will be slapped with if found guilty.
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On Wednesday, Nyangani seemed resigned to the possibility that he would not be going to the same school again as he told Chronicle that he collected all his belongings before he was taken to the police.
Police, who were called to the school following the fight, cautioned both the pupil and the teacher. They took Nyangani to Bulawayo Central Police Station, with Ndebele following later.
Efforts to get a comment from Milton School headmaster William Ncube, not Misheck Ngwenya as reported yesterday, were not successful.
Ncube was out of the office when the news crew visited the school yesterday and sources said he was seen at the district education offices in the morning.
A concerned parent whose child learns at Milton High visited Chronicle offices yesterday and said education authorities should also investigate the headmaster as this incident showed that there was inadequate supervision at the school.
“Authorities should investigate the headmaster. This may reflect that there is no adequate supervision at the school as we hear a lot of rumours,” said the parent.
An official from the Ministry of Education who cannot be named for professional reasons said the correct procedure that should have been followed at the school after the misunderstanding between Ndebele and the pupil was for the teacher to hand over the boy to the deputy headmaster who chairs the school’s disciplinary committee.
“A teacher is a fatherly figure who should maintain his dignity in all situations and not stoop so low as to actually fight with a schoolboy. He could just have suspended the boy for 14 days if he feared that he would be a bad example,” the official said.
On Tuesday, Ndebele declined to be interviewed, but Nyangani claimed that the teacher assaulted him using a hosepipe and when he grabbed it, the teacher started using fists.
He further claimed that Ndebele knocked him down and started kicking him, prompting him to retaliate.
“Mr Ndebele never gave me a chance to explain about the gloves and started assaulting me with a hosepipe. When I managed to wrestle the hosepipe from him he started using fists,” said Nyangani.
“When I rose up, I tried to run away but the door had been locked. I was left with no alternative but to fight back.”
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