Oprah Winfrey school abuse: The shocking facts

Posted: July 29th, 2008 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General | Tagged as , , , , ,
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The trial of a teacher at Oprah Winfrey’s South African school got underway today in earnest and the testimony is shocking to say the least. This trial places one of the biggest figures in global media in the spotlight and it will make waves around the world. How the media deals with a trial in which a major media personality is involved will be keenly watched.
An extract from the testimony:

The State alleges that Tiny Makopo indecently assaulted girls aged 13 and 14 by kissing them with an open mouth, touching their breasts, forcing them to touch her breasts and creeping into their beds and telling them to be lesbians.
She is accused of assaulting a 13-year-old girl by slapping her, pulling her hair, forcing her to sit on a bare floor for 15 minutes and rubbing custard into her hair.
One of the girls was allegedly throttled and told she was so stupid she did not deserve to be at the school.

Read our story here.

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Comments

 

Bonginkosi

July 29, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Hayibo! Sies, man. This woman is filthy.

 

Sally

July 29, 2008 at 4:31 pm

That’s how the people in this country treat the outsiders that try to help and improve their lives by giving them decent employment…..

 

Gideon J Nel

July 29, 2008 at 4:50 pm

People like this women only tar the image of South Africa -there is no room for her type in our country’s future

 

Jeremy

July 29, 2008 at 4:55 pm

This sort of thing can happen in any country.

Let’s just hope that swift justice will be the order of the day.

 

katia

July 29, 2008 at 4:56 pm

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED..REALY IT WAS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE REAL FILTH WAS EXPOSED.

 

Ali

July 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Disgusting.

Sally, this **** can and does happen anywhere. I was abused by a white male dentist.

 

tshego

July 30, 2008 at 10:24 am

whats new? this is south africa anything is possible… thats very disgusting she deserves to go to jail.

 

anni

July 30, 2008 at 11:17 pm

This unfortunate incident will be a blow to *** and ******* rights in South Africa. The black communities in South Africa are homophobic and this incident will not help black *** rights at all. I would like to know: who selected this woman as a teacher / matron? Was there a panel of experts? Was Oprah involved in the screening process? Surely this woman’s character should have been screened with psychometric tests and other personality tests? Could someone answer that?

 

Ken

July 31, 2008 at 9:46 pm

This type of thing happens in schools every single day in South Africa. It has perhaps the highest sexual abuse rate in the world. Only because it’s Oprah’s school is this news.

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    I am Ray Hartley, the editor of The Times, South Africa, a daily newspaper which was launched in June 2007 under the Sunday Times umbrella. I'm also the editor of Times LIVE.

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