{"id":76257,"date":"2017-12-05T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=76257"},"modified":"2017-12-05T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:48:43","slug":"sex-drugs-booze-school-hillside-investigation-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/12\/05\/sex-drugs-booze-school-hillside-investigation-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, drugs and booze at school – Hillside investigation ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/a>\u00a0reported in August 2016 on a number of very disturbing allegations<\/a> against the private school.<\/p>\n

A former teacher, Mr Johan Duvenhage,\u00a0 said children had filmed themselves having sex to sell the videos for cash.<\/p>\n

Mr Duvenhage alleged that drug abuse is rife within the school and that teachers weren\u2019t being paid regularly.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren fight over chairs which has to be moved from one class to the other due to a shortage,\u201d Mr Duvenhage said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also said that boxes filled with used sanitary pads were placed in open spaces.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/54180\/private-school-rocked-by-sex-drugs-and-booze-allegations\/<\/p>\n

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Hillside Director Mr Joseph Sebotse denied all allegations.<\/p>\n

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Mr Duvenhage petitioned both the provincial<\/a> and national<\/a>\u00a0education departments to investigate the allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that the allegations are being taken very seriously and the investigation into them, and other serious allegations, remain open,\u201d Mr Jasper Zwane<\/a> told\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Mpumalanga Department of Education confirmed on Monday that the investigation into a number of serious allegations leveled against Hillside Private School, remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":76259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[9665,2524,9660,9661,9664,9663,21966,9666,9662,9667],"class_list":["post-76257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-department-of-education","tag-education","tag-hillside","tag-hillside-private-school","tag-jasper-zwane","tag-joseph-sebotse","tag-middelburg","tag-private-education","tag-school-scandal","tag-schools-in-middelburg"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["department of education","education","hillside","hillside private school","Jasper Zwane","Joseph Sebotse","middelburg","private education","school scandal","schools in Middelburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}