MBOMBELA – “I tell you, Cefups Academy is no school but a correctional services centre that ruined my life. Before I went there, I had never sat eyes on nyaope, drugs or indulged in alcohol, but that school corrupted me to the hilt.”
Those are the words of a 19-year-old former learner who was also savagely sjambokked by the owner of the school, Mr Simon Mkhatshwa.
The lad, Sipho Ngwenya (not his real name), met us in the city to tell us about his experience and the hardship he endured as a learner at Cefups Academy from 2011 to August 2012 when he fled after having been beaten.
Read more in today’s print edition of Mpumalanga News.