The shocking video of a Grade 10 student being assaulted at Milnerton High School by a group of older students, who allegedly all represented the school’s 1stXV rugby team, resulted in them being charged with assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Thereafter, several accusations were made on social media that one player was suspended from a prominent Cape Town Southern Suburb school. Even worse, another boy was alleged to have three pending criminal cases against him.
One would hope that these boys were exceptions to the rule; however, unfortunately, they are just the tip of the iceberg. Ruggas has information about at least five other boys who represented their schools’ 1stXV in 2025 who were expelled from their schools for bullying and even worse offences that would have led to extended criminal sentences if they were two years older, and were accepted with open arms at other "rugby" schools.
In one instance, the “new” school requested a report from the expelled boy's first school, and following the report, refused the boy entrance at the new school. “Fortunately,” another school was just too glad to accept the boy, who also represented the U18 SA Schools earlier this year, stating that they will work with him.
This brings us to the question of whether the school, the coach, or anybody else who was aware of accepting the child as a learner, is he/she guilty of exposing other learners to the criminal behaviour of such a learner? Maybe a test case is needed. Maybe?
If you allow your child access to a gun and he injures another person, the owner of the gun is criminally responsible for the offender's action. Is a parent, teacher, or principal not then criminally responsible for exposing pupils at a new school without informing the new school?