‘No, you can’t have your report because your fees are outstanding’

That’s what a school is said to have told a pupil whose dad couldn’t pay her fees because he lost his job in the July riots

07 December 2021 - 18:28

While most pupils would have been overjoyed if they bagged eight distinctions in the year-end tests, it was a bittersweet moment for a grade 9 pupil after her school withheld her report because of unpaid fees...

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