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Gauteng school threatens to take immigrant children to cops

Source: African News Agency, 26/02/2018

Johannesburg ï¿½` The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) on Friday
requested the Eastleigh Primary School to withdraw its letter that
threatened foreign nationals that their children will be sent to the
police station if their immigration documents weren`t updated.
The letter to parents who are foreign nationals, requested them to
update their information by producing original immigration permits or
face the prospect of having their children removed from the school by
the police.
The letter was circulated on social media.
The school said had been visited by SA Home Affairs officials whom it
said instructed it to take the drastic action. However, GDE
spokesperson Oupa Bodibe on Friday said the department had requested
the school to withdraw it.
`As the department we support the need to comply with laws of the
country, but caution that we need to be sympathetic and deal with it
with empathy,` said Bodibe.
`So the school has been asked to withdraw the last statement, where it
was threatening to send the children to the police station, but rather
to tell parents that if they don`t comply they must keep their children
at home.`

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