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Promise Mpala

High Court reverses schoolboy expulsion

By Mashudu Netsianda The High Court has ordered Roman Catholic Church-run Embakwe High School to re-admit an Ordinary-Level pupil who was expelled from the school for praying in an “unacceptable” Pentecostal way. The pupil is sitting for national public examinations. The ruling by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha follows an urgent chamber application […]

O-Level exam candidate sues school and minister over prayers

By Mashudu Netsianda An Ordinary-Level pupil sitting for public examinations has taken Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora and the Roman Catholic-run Embakwe High School authorities to court following his expulsion from the school for praying in an “unacceptable” Pentecostal way. Promise Mpala (17) was expelled from the Plumtree school by the headmaster, Mr […]