Court sets St Andrews College expulsion aside — but rebukes schoolboy’s father

The Grahamstown high court has set aside the expulsion of a Grade 11 St Andrews College pupil who “lashed” a fellow pupil with a broken golf putter so harshly on his buttocks that it caused blood blisters.

While judge Thembekile Malusi set aside the expulsion on a procedural technicality, he was sharply critical of the boy’s father’s threatening and illicit behaviour during and after his son’s disciplinary hearing at the school...

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