Africa-Press – South-Africa. Thirty-six pupils at a Gauteng high school have been suspended for allegedly smoking dagga on school premises.
On Friday, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said that the Leondale High School pupils “captured on video smoking dagga within the school premises have been removed and suspended from the school”.
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The suspensions came after One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane took to Twitter to share footage of the pupils allegedly smoking dagga at the school.
He used the social media platform to call for the removal of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Maimane wrote:
Lesufi said a disciplinary hearing would be held before the end of the weekend.
While addressing pupils at the school on Friday, Lesufi said that an investigation would be launched into who was selling and distributing the drugs.
“We want to know who is influencing our children in wrongdoing… Either you want to be a learner or you don’t want to be a learner. We can’t tolerate a situation in which learners smoke dagga [on] the school premises,” he told pupils.
Lesufi added that a criminal case would be opened after the disciplinary hearing.
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