SOUTH AFRICA
Sunday Times
BOBBY JORDAN | 26 May, 2014
One of South Africa’s oldest schools has been engulfed in a sex scandal – prompting allegations of a cover-up spanning two decades.
Cape Town’s prestigious private boys-only Diocesan College, better known as Bishops, this week confirmed two alleged incidents of sexual abuse.
The first incident involves a former pupil who alleged he was sexually abused by a fellow pupil. The claims of the former pupil, now living in the US, were published this week in Noseweek magazine.
The Sunday Times has since established that a second incident involving a teacher and a Grade 11 pupil has been kept under wraps since 1990, when the boy’s parents lodged a complaint.
Incredibly, the teacher, Leonard Kap-lan, was allowed to remain at the school for more than 20 years despite the matter being widely known among the school community. He retired four years ago.
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