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Parents stand with placards outside the school
Civic Movement, March and March, has accused the principal of Addington Primary School in Durban for allegedly prioritising immigrant children over South African learners.
This after dozens of parents held demonstrations outside the school since Tuesday demanding that their children be admitted to the school.
South African parents were calling for their children to be prioritized, while immigrant parents claimed that they were being discriminated against.
Addington is reportedly the only public primary school in the area.
March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says, “We actually were there to talk to the principal and he blatantly refused to attend to the parents who were there to request admission for their children. And we went to Addington as a simple case study because we know that there’s a majority of learners who are not South African and when we got there, we were met with those numbers.”
Ngobese-Zuma adds, “So it’s very sad because we have a list of close to 100 parents who don’t have a place in school. Their children live in the area and some of the parents had actually tried to apply even the year before but were told there’s no space.”
[LISTEN] Tensions ran high at Addington Primary School in Durban yesterday as parents clashed over learner enrolment. March and March Leader, Jacinta Zinhle MaNgobese Zuma says South African learners needs to be prioritised
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