A school scrapped plans to haul a pupil to a disciplinary hearing over comments she made about it at an EFF meeting after a party representative pitched up to represent her.
Laudium Secondary School, outside Pretoria, charged Grade 9 pupil, Feerozah Ismail, with bringing its name into disrepute after she told an EFF townhall meeting on 21 April that the monthly Sassa (South African Social Security Agency) grant was R530, "yet our school fees monthly is R1 200 in a government school".
"We paid our school fees, yet our school has no teachers. So, what are we paying for?" she said at the meeting at the Laudium Civic Centre, which was addressed by EFF leader Julius Malema.