Sacked ‘skeelgat’ teacher rises from the ‘dead’ to say: this is all so unfair

She was fired for degrading a pupil with a squint. Then her sister said Covid killed her. Then she called us back

15 October 2020 - 20:00 By prega govender

The sister of a deputy principal who was fired for insulting a pupil with a defective eye claimed she had died of Covid-19 in the latest development in a bizarre story involving accusations of racism and verbal abuse...

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