Mop handle rape accused are expelled
Three white pupils who allegedly tortured and raped a black pupil with a mop handle at Hoer Landbouskool in Jan Kempdorp have been expelled. Two of the assailants are 18 and in matric, and the third,aged 17, is in Grade 9. Disciplinary proceedings against a fourth pupil were suspended after a lack of evidence.Legal representatives acting on behalf of the three and their parents filed an urgent application in the High Court in Kimberley on Friday for an interim order to set aside the expulsions. The matter was postponed to next Tuesday to give the Northern Cape Education Department, which is opposing the action, time to file its papers.Safiyia Stanfley, the DA's spokeswoman for education in the Northern Cape, welcomed the boys' expulsion, saying: "I don't see how this can go without any kind of punishment." ..
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