Daily Sun (August 28 2014) - IT DIDN'T take long before most of the pupils had the video of the bonking schoolkids on their phones.
And while parents and the education department are shocked . . .
SOME PUPILS SAY THIS KIND OF THING HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!
A 19-year-old matric pupil at Mosupatsela Senior Secondary School in Kagiso, west of Joburg, who did not want to be named, said her friends were talking about the video. "I heard about two grade 10 pupils having sex in a classroom on the third floor on Monday afternoon," she said.
"I wasn't shocked at all. A lot of wild and crazy things happen at this school. I have even heard of pupils having sex in the toilets." The video shows a naked girl and the semi-dressed boy having sex on a table in class after school. A pupil apparently heard noises in the classroom and looked through the window. The pupil managed to take a video of the raunchy sexual encounter, which soon went viral.
A pupil said that just two weeks before, two boys got into a fight and one of the boys was stabbed.
Another matric pupil (18) said a year ago, a few pupils were found with unlicensed firearms.
"A video like this doesn't bother me. I'm used to these things going on around here," he said.
"I cannot wait to finish my final exams and get out of here. I am tired of all of this. The pupils give the school a bad name."
A girl of 17 said she was disappointed. "I know this girl as a quiet and decent girl. I never thought she would do something like this," she said. "Yesterday when she got to school she wasn't ashamed at all. She told everyone that she got what she wanted so they should stop staring at her."
The pupils and their parents were apparently called in for a meeting yesterday morning but no details have been released. A parent, Nomsa Ncube (45), said she heard about the sex tape through her daughter.
"I'm disappointed and disgusted at what happened at the school. A school is an environment for learning, not for sex," she said.
"It makes me sad that the youth don't consider the consequences of their actions." Another parent, Thomas Ramabulana (53), said he didn't send his children to school to have sex. "The school does not have any security personnel to patrol the school. They are failing the children and the parents," he said.
And Mathapelo Morake (36) said cellphones are to blame.
"They can communicate and plan their sexual encounters. It is too easy for the kids to get hold of these sex pictures," she said. She said the sex in the classroom was obviously planned because they thought no one would be at the school.
The Gauteng Department of Education's spokeswoman, Phumla Sekhonyane, said MEC Panyaza Lesufi has identified discipline as one of the priorities for the department. Phumla said: "Following the MEC's recommendation, the school has suspended the two pupils as well as two other pupils who were standing guard.
"The parents were called to the school yesterday to be informed about the alleged conduct of their children," she said. She said the department was arranging a meeting at the school to address issues of poor discipline.
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