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Mpianzi’s family demands 20 million rand for his death after he died at a school camp in January this year.
Enock Mpianzi, the 13-year-old Parktown Boys’ High student who drowned during a school camp at the Nyati shelter in the northwest. Image: Xanderleigh Dookey / EWN.
JOHANNESBURG – As the dispute continues between the family of Parktown Boys High School student Enock Mpianzi and the Gauteng Department of Education, Eyewitness news You can confirm that the department has offered the teenager’s parents R350,000 each as compensation for his death.
Mpianzi’s family demands 20 million rand for his death after he died at a school camp in January this year.
The eighth-grader drowned at an unauthorized Parktown Boys High School camp in the Northwest.
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In legal documents seen by Eyewitness news, the Gauteng Department of Basic Education has offered the Mpianzi family a cash of R700,000 for the death of their son.
The family’s attorney, Ian Levits, said this was a shame: “The department has come out so many times saying they don’t feel like litigating this case and that they are going to take it seriously, but when you offer R350,000 [to each parent] it is a shame “.
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He said they were continuing their legal offer: “If you want to get closer to a negotiation, you have to take this case more seriously.”
The department has rejected the Mpianzi family’s request for more money.
They said they were ready to meet them in court.
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