St Jeff College

I don't understand why this institution is being allowed to operate in South Africa despite all these complaints.

The institution is named St Jeff College Primary School /High School situated at No 17 - 21 Faraday Street , Village Main in Johannesburg. This school is owned by "Jeffery Mwene Chikandi" who is a Zambian foreign national.

There problem started when a young female scholar who started at this school this calendar year, had a traumatic experience and fears going back such that her parents decided to remove her from this abusive institution.

Her iPhone was confiscated by the school principal since they don't allow any electronic gadgets inside the school premises, even though their school work is submitted through their cellphones.

Her iPhone was then destroyed by being grinded with an electronic grinder right Infront of her and fellow scholars, and she was threatened and promised a Sjambok which is a normal disciplinary practice in this school since she once witness a fellow scholar being subjected to a Sjambok in the corridors.

The school also do not allow parents to enter the school premises and they have placed bouncers at the school premisses to prevent anyone from entering wether one is a parent or government official. Visitor's are only attended by the bouncers at the door.

This school has a compulsory transport that fetches the scholars to and from home from as early as 4 am in the morning and reaches the school just after 10 am, because their 22 seater mini busses carries an over load of up to 60 students. This was also witness by the young girl when the very school transport was stopped by traffic officials and the driver was compelled to contact the school owner to request another transport since they couldn't allow it to proceed which such an overload. The learner's arrives back home just after 20h00 in the evening because of the same overload by the school transport after teaching finishes at 17h00 to cover the time lost in the morning. Students are strongly warned against mentioning this to anyone as they will be subjected to Sjambok or punishment by the owner. Other learner's warned those that told the traffic officers about their daily late coming, that they will be severely punished by the school's owner since he is feared by the learner's, teachers and the general administration staff.

By this school's rules and regulations, parents are prohibited from dropping or collecting their children from this school no matter what the circumstances.

We were also told that it is common practice for this male owner to perform a virginity test on school girls without their parent's consent or permission.

It took police escort for us to come closer to the door where the bouncers called the owner and the principal who refused to come out and meet the parents but promised a refund within 24 hrs. There were some other parents who came with similar complaints and they were relieved when we showed up with police. The police were arguing that we can't open a case since the schools regulation protects this owner. Apparently opening a case would be a futal exersize since it is alleged that this Zambian owner is friends with police of which some of them fear the guy.

On reporting the matter to the Gauteng Education Department, the official informed us that they are aware of the complaints against this Zambian foreign national and his school which is registered as an independent institution, but promised to arrange a meeting between the parents and the school. The GED official also advised us that we must choose between opening a case or allowing the department to handle the matter since the department will withdraw if the matter is taken to the police.

This Zambian foreign national is violating the South African Constitution/laws which prohibits any form of Capital punishment. This man also has a charismatic church that he runs and I suspect he's running a cult. This man must be stopped as our children are in serious danger.