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'It cannot happen': MEC vows investigation after pregnant teen is kicked out of KZN school | News24

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KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Mbali Frazer has vowed to order an investigation into why a pregnant 16-year-old girl was kicked out of a Durban school. The principal allegedly told her to only return after she had given birth next year. | soyiso_maliti

MPLs heard about the complaint during a legislature sitting on Thursday.

The mother wrote to the DA, whose education spokesperson Imran Keeka sponsored the motion in the legislature. According to the mother's complaint, the principal had doubled down on 31 May in a phone call where he told the family that the pupil could only return to the school grounds to write her exam on the condition that a minder accompanied her.Join the 1 million News24 readers who are signed up to receive the top, must-read stories of the day in their inbox.

 

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