SINCE the drowning of two pupils from Daveyton Skills school on Monday, more parents are coming out to share the bad treatment their children allegedly experienced while at the camp.
Parents told Daily Sun how their children were allegedly thrown into the dam, forced to drink dirty water and forced into the mud.
Parents likened the treatment to military training camp, which they never agreed to.
About 90 pupils from Daveyton Skills school were taken to a disciplinary camp in Tshwane on 12 April.
Accompanying them was one social worker.
"My son came with a runny stomach because they were given soya mince to cook every day and without salt," alleged one of the parents.
"It was like they were at the military training."
The mother said they received letters from the school on 5 April informing them to come to school on 8 April.
"When we got there, we were informed that our children are going on excursion and were leaving on the 12th of April and would return on the 16 April," she said.
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She said kids were given indemnity forms to fill.
Kids left on 12 April and were supposed to return on the 16th of April.
The mother alleged that instead they received the calls on Monday night informing them to wait for their children at bus stops just after 10pm.
"I was not comfortable. I told them that they should deliver my child close to home," she alleged.
She said that's when her son explained what happened at the camp.
"We want the department to compensate our children for the trauma they've experienced. She said her son told her that the boys drowned because they couldn't swim.
"My son was in a group of pupils who asked for permission to swim, others were saved, but only Sibusiso Sibiya (17) and Sphamandla Peterson (15) couldn't make it," the parent alleged.
The Gauteng Department of Education has since appointed a firm of lawyers to launch an investigation into the tragedy.
The two pupils drowned during a discipline camp at Rock Falls Adventure Ranch in Centurion, Tshwane.
The camp was allegedly organised by non-governmental organisation called Rising Stars Generation.
