'Milnerton High has no anti-bullying policy'

MILNERTON High School, the school at the centre of high-profile bullying scandal, has no formal anti-bullying policy in place.

- BY NICOLA DANIELS

This is the finding the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education made following an oversight visit to the school last week in the wake of an assault of a 16-year-old grade 10 learner.

Six pupils were charged with assault in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Thursday and released on R2 000 bail.

During Friday's meeting, the principal noted that there was an anti-bullying policy in place but when he was asked to produce it, committee chairperson Joy Maimela said he was unable to do so, "leading the committee to conclude that it does not exist".