Reserve Bank of South Africa governor Lesetja Kganyago’s wife is refusing to back down in a racial feud with a top Pretoria private school.
Zibusiso Kganyago, a member of the diversity and transformation committee (DTC) at Cornwall Hill College (CHC), has been accused by the school board of sending an unauthorised submission on racism to the SA Human Rights Commission (HRC).
The document voiced concerns over what it says is a lack of transformation, racism among pupils and a general racial divide at the school.
But Kganyago, who has a daughter at the institution, said the school’s reaction was an attempt to “isolate and target individuals who have been outspoken about racism” there.
She provided the Sunday Times with correspondence between the DTC, the board and the HRC, saying the committee had been well within its rights to make the submission.
The predominantly white board, chaired by Prithinee Naidoo, asked the HRC late last year to amend a questionnaire it was preparing to send to pupils as part of its inquiry.
The HRC refused, saying research ethics would not allow it. The questionnaire was approved by its research department. The questions included whether pupils thought there was racism at the school, and whether they had experienced racist bullying.
The school’s 18-member executive management team is exclusively white.
Naidoo told the HRC that Kganyago’s submission “must not in any way be recognised as that of the CHC board or the entire DTC”.
Naidoo told the commission the “ and veracity of the submission is materially flawed in several respects”.
The school, where fees for grade 10-12 pupils are about R100,000 a year, and which is attended by children of several high-ranking government officials, was rocked by antiracism protests in May last year.
Source: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2022-03-06-reserve-bank-governors-wife-refuses-to-back-down-in-school-race-feud/
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