Several pupils at Hoërskool Rustenburg will face a disciplinary hearing over an incident on school grounds. Facebook/Hoërskool Rustenburg This after a widely circulated video showed them performing a Nazi salute. The video, initially uploaded on TikTok, shows pupils taking part in karaoke during the school’s academic week. It’s understood pupils on stage gestured the Nazi salute while singing ‘Erika’, a song associated with WWII and Germany. SGB chairperson Bernhard Visser has condemned the incident. “It’s definitely not the identity and the character of our school,” said Visser. “Ignorance is definitely not an excuse. I came to the conclusion that this incident is a mirror of self-reflection, this is an opportunity to look ourselves in the mirror and understand that we’ve probably failed this group of students, that this education was not educated on the history and why these symbols are so sensitive to our communities.”
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