<div dir="ltr"><h2><span>WC Education looking into allegations of racism at Sans Souci Girl High</span></h2>
<p class="gmail-lead">Former learners have asked Education MEC Debbie Schafer to look into complaints dating back to 2011.</p>
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<div class="gmail-byline"><span>Sans Souci
students protest outside of their school to highlight the alleged racist
hair and language policies of the institution. Picture: Anthony
Molyneaux/EWN</span>
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<span></span></p><p>CAPE TOWN – The Western Cape Education Department says it will look into allegations of racism and <a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/02/Sans-Souci-girls-take-to-the-streets-in-protest" target="_blank">discrimination at Sans Souci Girls High School</a>, including those dating back several years.<br>
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Yesterday, the provincial education department met with current and former learners and their parents.<br>
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During a meeting with learners and parents, Western Cape Education <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Debbie-Schafer" target="_blank">MEC Debbie Schafer</a> reacted with shock to the <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/natural-hair" target="_blank">allegations of racism and discrimination</a>.<br>
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“Because nothing is intelligent unless it’s in English, so basically the
language policy is an exclusionary one. It’s built to exclude students
who majority of them are black.”<br>
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Schafer shook her head in disbelief as learners told her about being
denied access to the toilets during classtime because school policy
dictates they can only use it up to five times a year when in class.<br>
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Former learners have asked <a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/02/MEC-Schafer-vows-to-look-into-claims-of-racism-discrimination-at-Sans-Souci" target="_blank">Schafer to look into complaints dating back to 2011</a>.</p><p><a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/03/WC-Edu-looking-into-allegations-of-racism-at-Sans-Souci-Girl-High">http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/03/WC-Edu-looking-into-allegations-of-racism-at-Sans-Souci-Girl-High</a><br></p><p><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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