CURRO Holdings has made headlines, again.
This after it was lambasted for posting photos of pupils' career day event where they posed a black child as a cashier and white children as doctors and other professions.
The photos went viral on X on Monday, 1 April, leaving tweeps hot under the collar.
Curro Holdings has since acknowledged that the career day post published on social media portraying children in various workplace contexts was offensive due to the inappropriate stereotypes depicted.
Curro said the post was in error and has since been deleted.
“Curro reiterates its commitment to diversity and non-racialism in our schools,” it said in a statement.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) said it acknowledges the statement released by Curro Holdings regarding its recent social media post conveyed a racially unbalanced narrative concerning pupils' potential future careers.
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Departmental spokesman Steve Mabona said this acknowledgement, however, should be seen against the background of recent racial challenges that Curro has faced, one of which involved a black educator being called a monkey at one of its institutions.
“The GDE doesn't take such racial incidents lightly as they may be cultivating attitudes that reflect a society that has not fully dealt with racism. This poses a threat, not only to the education system and the model citizens it envisages to create but also to a nation that still tirelessly works towards overcoming such attitudes,” Mabona said.
He said there's an urgent need to investigate the constitutionality of Curro’s value system, and whether there's enough conscientisation of racial equality and human rights across all its institutions and personnel.
“It's also pertinent to verify whether there are indeed appropriate means of accountability for those who may refuse to embrace equality and non-racialism at its institutions,” he concluded.
The department wants answers from the school regarding the matter.
