{"id":11485,"date":"2013-11-04T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2013-11-04T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T13:11:55","slug":"black-twins-blame-racism-for-bad-marks-at-potchefstroom-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11485","title":{"rendered":"Black twins blame racism for bad marks at Potchefstroom school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Racism.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5342\" alt=\"Racism\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Racism-300x150.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Racism-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Racism.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A hearing has been scheduled at a top North West school following claims of racism against two brothers,\u00a0<b>The Star<\/b>\u00a0reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The twins, Kago and Kagiso Mangope, 14, are Grade 8 pupils at Potchefstroom Gimnasium school and are also the only two black boys who live in the Grade 8 hostel.<\/p>\n<p>Their brother Lebo told the newspaper that the boys were constantly called &#8220;kaffir&#8221; and two previous incidents resulted in Kago quitting the rugby team.<\/p>\n<p>Schoolboys would call him names as he would constantly report who would be racist towards him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The racial slurs were hurled in front of a teacher and the teacher acted as if nothing happened,&#8221; he told the publication.<\/p>\n<p>The stress of the insults had resulted in their marks dropping.<\/p>\n<p>Lebo contacted the school and was told that the complaint would be attended to as it was a serious and sensitive matter.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing has been scheduled for Monday, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Education department spokesperson Brian Setswammung told the newspaper that the department would wait for the outcome of the hearing to determine the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The department does not condone racial attacks and violence at schools. If a pattern of racism emerges, the department will ensure that urgent steps are taken to address the matter,&#8221; he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearing has been scheduled at a top North West school following claims of racism against two brothers,\u00a0The Star\u00a0reported on Monday. The twins, Kago and Kagiso Mangope, 14, are Grade 8 pupils at Potchefstroom Gimnasium school and are also the only two black boys who live in the Grade 8 hostel. Their brother Lebo told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black twins blame racism for bad marks at Potchefstroom school&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[261,7263,7262,7261,157],"class_list":["post-11485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-kaffir","tag-kagiso-mangope","tag-kago","tag-potchefstoorm-gimnasium","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Racism.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}