Pretoria - Parents of learners at the St Mary’s Diocesan School for Girls staged a protest against what they say is years of racism and bullying perpetuated towards black learners.
“There is a myriad of issues such as black girls being body shamed, you know some African girls are a bit bigger but they get shamed by the teachers, sometimes sexualised, we have had incidents of pupils being called by the N-word or sluts and this has to stop.” Zaxa said some of them go back 10, 20 years and “even after multiple attempts we still find ourselves in this same position.”