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DA says it is hate speech
Circuit manager of the Vhembe Education District at centre of controversy over apparent racial slurs
By Andries van Zyl
Did the circuit manager of the Vhembe Education District, Dr Sampie Phaswana, go too far when giving a tongue-lashing to a group of matriculants at Eric Louw High School in Musina about their apparent lack of discipline? The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Limpopo believes so, going so far as to lay hate speech charges against Phaswana at the Musina Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Dr Phaswana, an ordained minister of religion in the Lutheran Church, who holds a doctor’s degree in marital problems, as well as a master’s degree in divorce and a master’s degree in practical theology, is now at the centre of a controversy over the apparent racial slurs he uttered to matriculants following their “40 Days” celebration at Eric Louw. One of the children recorded his outburst and, after obtaining a copy of the recording, the DA decided to go public with it. Dr Phaswana was apparently at the school for a meeting at the end of July, when the matriculants apparently started
throwing eggs and water balloons at each other playfully. This outraged him, even more so when the matriculants apparently failed to obey a teacher’s instruction to stop. The group of matriculants was called in and what followed was an almost eightminute-long tongue-lashing from Dr Phaswana, marked by foul language and racial remarks in both Afrikaans and English. In the recording, Dr Phaswana can be heard saying: “I don’t play games ... now once you are here, you behave. If the principal says ‘You don’t throw an egg to anybody, you just don’t throw an egg ... and you think it is a joke when people fight and they stab each other ... this is not a battlefield ... You want to study, you come here, fine, we are all smiles. You don’t want to study, you voetsek! You just go. Whoever does not want to be at school here, stand up now, I will de-register you over the phone now!” Shortly afterwards, Dr Phaswana says: “... you don’t mess up with me – not now, not ever! Nobody messes up with me ... So ... you were told ‘you don’t throw those’ what do you call them? ... you call them water bombs. You don’t know what a bomb is. I carried bombs, I fought, I
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carried bombs, I had bombs from Russia long ago before you were born. I know what a bomb is, I have seen people die, here, I’ve seen people die ... you don’t know what a bomb is ... You come to my office you will see my boy, he is nine years old, I am teaching him to shoot at that age, nine years old, I’ve got many guns, you don’t know what bombs are ... so you don’t throw any bomb, you don’t throw any egg ... you are the people who are to be exemplary ... you are the Grade 12s ...” Dr Phaswana then threatens the matriculants: “But if there is a Grade 12 that doesn’t want to be here and he bends every rule of the school, God help me, you will be sorry! Because I am not going to have mercy on anybody who bends the rules ...” He then adds: “... even before I listen to anybody from any farm or anybody from any political camp, whether you are a member of the Inkata Freedom Party or you parents are the politicians anywhere... I am not interested, ek gee nie om nie, ek is f@#*&n gatvol van mense wat kom by my ... hulle maak asof hul kinders niks gemaak het ... When you parents come to me it’s like you did not do anything ... Nou ek is gatvol!” (Contd on P2)
Brand saai paniek ‘n Elektriese ontploffing in ‘n sentrale substasie langs die Rentmeestergebou in Makhado (Louis Trichardt) het die hele sentrale sakebuurt Woensdag sonder elektriese krag gelaat. Huurders in die gebou moes op versoek van die brandweer die perseel in ‘n stadium ontruim, nadat die brand wat ontstaan het na die dak van die gebou versprei het. Die brandweer het aanvanklik probleme ondervind om vanuit die stegie langs die gebou die vlamme te blus, wat kort-kort weer tesame met digte rook uit die substasie geborrel het. Na bewering is die kortsluiting wat tot die ontploffing gelei het, veroorsaak deur katte wat hulle intrek in die substasie geneem het. Omstanders het aan weerskante by die ingange van die stegie tussen Krogh- en Burgerstraat saamgedrom. (Vir meer foto’s en video’s, besoek www. zoutpansberger.co.za)
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