Explicit video gets scholars suspended

Two Grade 10 pupils were suspended from Mosupatsela Senior Secondary School as a result of a video that was spread among their fellow pupils featuring the two engaged in an assumed sexual act.

Large numbers of social media users took up the offer to have the video sent to their phones, and screen shots allegedly from the video in question also did the rounds.

The story that made the front page of the Daily Sun newspaper was posted on street light poles.

It was not the first time something like this has happened at the particular school, according to comments made on facebook.

The Gauteng Department of Education’s spokesperson Phumla Sekhonyane released a statement that says MEC Panyaza Lesufi has identified discipline as one of the priorities for the department.

She also stated that the department was arranging a meeting at the school to address issues of poor discipline.

Phumla says, “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 to be informed about the alleged conduct of their children,” she says.

The distribution, being a criminal and unlawful act in itself (as the children are likely to be under age) does not seem to be a point of concern as on one social media post more than 50 users gave out their cellphone numbers to have the video sent to their phones.

Child pornography is illegal in South Africa and is punishable by hefty fines and up to 10 years in prison.