News24 | 'No place for gay tendencies', teacher allegedly told Grade 6 boy who took his own life

Yoliswa Sobuwa

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The family of Sibusiso Mbatha is outraged after learning that a teacher allegedly told the boy that the school he went to had no place for gay people.

The family of Sibusiso Mbatha is devastated after learning that one of his teachers allegedly bullied the boy about his sexual orientation before his death.

Sibusiso, a Grade 6 pupil at Khehlekile Primary School in Thokoza, Ekurhuleni, is believed to have taken his own life last Monday night.

He allegedly hanged himself with a skipping rope in an outside toilet at his home after a teacher allegedly told him to leave his "gay tendencies" outside the school gate.