Two lecturers go on shocking anti-gay rant at Durban college

Two lecturers from an Umlazi college have been suspended. It is reported that the two lecturers refused to teach a gay student. Coastal KZN TVET College principal Sbhanna Ndlovu has condemned the incident, labeling it “homosexual abuse.”

IOL reports that student who was abused is a second year office administration student, it is reported that the lecturers told him that “they teach boys and girls and not people in the middle.”

“I was wearing skinny jeans and it was the first day I came to school with braids. They asked me why I was wearing girl’s clothes and doing my hair like a girl. They said I had come all the way from Pietermaritzburg to embarrass my parents by pretending to be a girl. – Bheka Khanyile, student

Khanyile reported the incident to the university’s SRC but he says the lecturers apologies were not sincere and merely an attempt to brush the incident off.  After lodging a formal letter of complaint, the principal then took action. Principal Ndlovu has says the lecturers have been suspended with full pay pending investigation.

The college has also arranged for the student to have trauma counselling. Now it seems the lecturers will either be dismissed or reprimanded after the investigation.  For a student to go through abuse like that anywhere, let alone a place of higher learning, is truly terrible. In this case it’s clearly the lecturers that need to be educated.