Users on Social Media have expressed outrage after a teacher at Hoërskool Die Burger in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, was caught on video scolding black pupils, asking them if they want to remain “idiots”.
Twitter user iMporthant (@Mphoww_D) posted the video on Twitter on Sunday, referring to the video as “racist behaviour” that her sister and classmates endure every morning.
24 years into Democracy and this is the kind of racist behavior that my sister and her peers have to endure from their educator every morning at Hoerskool Die Burger. @Julius_S_Malema @FloydShivambu @tumisole pic.twitter.com/fuhnFn6963
— iMphortant. (@Mpoww_D) January 21, 2018
During his outburst, the educator is heard saying: “The only thing people can see…what people can see…that’s why you guys only invented peanut butter and you don’t have to change, you can stay an idiot…you can stay an absolute idiot and laugh at everything I’m trying to change to make you a champion.”
As he goes on, the teacher tells pupils that he can show them videos about “idiotic black people that talk. Sorry that I say the words idiots and black because I don’t believe in idiot neither do I believe in black”.
With over 18 000 views, the video has stirred up debate across social media platforms about racism in South African high schools.
Replying to @Mphoww_D’s post, Twitter user @markusschorn described the teacher’s comments as “disgraceful, despicable, dangerous and disgusting.”
This guy should be arrested! Disgraceful despicable, dangerous and disgusting. I still maintain this is a minority of a minority of one community that is tarring all of us ???
— Markus Schorn (@markusschorn) January 22, 2018
Facebook user Sphish Pohlwana says: “It is beyond imagination to think that a racist like this can stand in front of our children, teaching them…racism must fall.”
Another Facebook user Musa Mathebula shared the video on his timeline, saying “Why must the students go through this type of language. No to racism.”
Many others also shared their frustrations on Twitter:
