{"id":11504,"date":"2013-11-04T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:53:57","slug":"schools-need-to-act-against-racism-nw-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11504","title":{"rendered":"Schools need to act against racism: NW premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11505\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thandi_modise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11505\" alt=\"Thandi Modise, premier of  North West province\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thandi_modise-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thandi_modise-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thandi_modise.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thandi Modise, premier of North West province<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Schools need to take firm action against the perpetrators of racism, North West premier Thandi Modise said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIncidents of racism such as the one reported (at Potchefstroom Gimnasium) undermine efforts of nation building and social cohesion that seeks to unite all communities across racial, ethnic and gender lines,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modise was responding to a report in The Star newspaper about two brothers who reportedly suffered constant harassment and racial slurs from fellow pupils at the Potchefstroom Gimnasium boarding school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The twins, Kago and Kagiso Mangope, 14, were Grade Eight pupils at the school and were also the only blacks in the Grade Eight hostel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their brother Lebo told the newspaper they were constantly called \u201ckaffir\u201d and that two previous incidents had resulted in Kago quitting the rugby team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A disciplinary hearing had been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modise said her administration would request a report from the school and would take action if necessary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSchools play a pivotal role in society&#8230;. Pupils coming from these institutions go on to occupy influential positions. It is therefore important that they are taught properly so that they become responsible citizens who will contribute towards building a free and fair society,\u201d she said. &#8211;\u00a0Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools need to take firm action against the perpetrators of racism, North West premier Thandi Modise said on Monday. \u201cIncidents of racism such as the one reported (at Potchefstroom Gimnasium) undermine efforts of nation building and social cohesion that seeks to unite all communities across racial, ethnic and gender lines,\u201d she said in a statement. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schools need to act against racism: NW premier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4835,157,1783,722],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-north-west","tag-racism","tag-schools","tag-thandi-modise"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/thandi_modise.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","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=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11506,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions\/11506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}