{"id":292446,"date":"2020-06-12T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=292446"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:43:46","slug":"walvis-teacher-fired-after-racist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=292446","title":{"rendered":"Walvis Teacher Fired after racist remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zorena Jantze<\/p>\n<p>CARIEN Steenkamp, the woman who recently found herself in the eye of the storm after spewing racist remarks on social media, has been fired effective immediately from the Hillside Christian College in Walvis Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steenkamp, who was a grade 2 teacher\u2019s assistant to mostly learners from a black background, has also been charged by the state in accordance with the Racial Discrimination Prohibition laws Act No 26 of 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, the school stated: \u201cWe all know that our actions have consequences. Therefore, due to the fact that her conduct was considered, by Hillside Christian College, as of serious and unacceptable nature, her services were permanently terminated as of today, Friday, 12 June 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Walvis-teacher-suspended-over-racist-remarks-Feature.png\" alt=\"Carien Steenkamp woman racist remarks social media fired effective\" class=\"wp-image-292304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Walvis-teacher-suspended-over-racist-remarks-Feature.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Walvis-teacher-suspended-over-racist-remarks-Feature.png 768w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Walvis-teacher-suspended-over-racist-remarks-Feature.png 397w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Walvis-teacher-suspended-over-racist-remarks-Feature.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>RACIST CANCELLED: Carien Steenkamp. Photo: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The schools added, \u201cFollowing the Biblical principle that God loves the sinner, but hates the sin, we want to clarify that we still love Ms. Steenkamp, but absolutely hate what she did \u2013 we hate the racist remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steenkamp on Sunday, 7 June, made social media commentary on the arrest of two white suspects who are amongst 4 other suspects who stand accused of killing a 43-year\/old Zimbabwean street vendor at the Savemore Etemba Plaza Supermarket, in Otjiwarango.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if the situation was the other way around, would there still be an outrage or media coverage?\u201d Steenkamp wrote on social media after the arrest of Jonathan Patrick Myburgh and Jannie Jansen van Vuuren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When queried further on the subject, Steenkamp continued on a rampage and said \u201cshow me one invention from Africa. If Whites didn&#8217;t arrive in Africa, you would still sit under a bush, looking at the moon and wonder if there is a way to get faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":292304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Walvis Bay teacher arrested for racism - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CARIEN Steenkamp, the woman who recently found herself in the eye of the storm after spewing racist remarks on social media, has been fired effective...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=292446\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walvis Bay teacher arrested for racism - 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