TOM EATON | There’s nothing private about the cruel elitism of ultra-rich schools

The R2-tossing incident involving Bishops pupils is only surprising because of the school they chose to mock as ‘poor’

25 May 2022 - 19:13

I am only partially surprised that boys from an extremely expensive private school in Cape Town reportedly flung R2 coins at boys from a less expensive state school, apparently mocking them for being “poor”...

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