Efforts by the government to aid scholars with their studies during examination time were tarnished and left education officials with eggs on their faces; this comes after the grade twelve revision site camps which were hosted by Gauteng department of Education at Wilberforce Community College, Evaton were abruptly cancelled three days prior to its official ending. This comes after allegations of thuggery and sexual indulgence from the scholars on premises.
It is understood that knife stabbing and sexual indulgence by learners from a certain school (name known by this blogger) were some of the incidents which led to the decision by the department to cancel the camp.
A learner who spoke on condition of anonymity said “This was a great initiative by the department and we appreciated it mainly because of the difference it made but how do you bring youth of opposite gender to one place without an elder looking after them? We know how the youth behave; it’s unfortunate that some of us have to suffer because of silly mistake as this one”
This was the second incident where youth have pissed on opportunity afforded to them, the other being a summit that was held a month ago by the Emfuleni Local Municipality which was marred by controversy.
District Manager, Sipho Chanza refused to comment and referred all queries to the department.
Gauteng department of Education, Spokesperson Charles Phahlane had not responded to questions left by this blogger at time of publishing.
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