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South Africa: Culture war over equity rocks elite school

By Audrey Simango

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Posted on November 22, 2022 10:40

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One of South Africa’s poshest private schools is caught in the tug of war between the country’s traditional elite and reformers agitating for a radical rethinking of the pathways to privilege in the rainbow nation.

Controversy over gay rights and slipping sports rankings has sparked a furious debate over modernisation and diversity among students, parents and alumni at Bishops Diocesan College, the elite Anglican boys’ school in Cape Town.

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