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]]>Full statement from the board below:
The Board of Governors of the St John’s Educational Trust would like to advise its stakeholders of the resignation of the Board Chairman Mr Charles Msipa with immediate effect. The resignation is by mutual agreement of the Board of Governors and Mr Msipa.
We would like to thank Mr Msipa for serving the Board for eight years and for his contribution to the school during his tenure. We wish him well in future endeavours.
The Board will advise of the incoming Chairman in due course. In the meantime, the board continues to work hard at dealing with the current issues for the good of the schools that we serve.
Yours faithfully Board of Governors St John’s Educational Trust
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]]>Dr Neil Hovelmeier was motivated to come out after a local paper was about to ‘expose’ him in their next publication. Homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe.
Parents of students went to the school and demanded that the Headmaster, Deputy and the whole school board resign, and they even engaged the services of a lawyer arguing that homosexuality “has no place whatsoever in a school environment where they are minors, who look up to your staff as their life models as they exercise their role”.
In his resignation letter Mr Hovelmeier said “I will not submit myself to a sham trial,”
Mr Hovelmeier has been at St Johns College for 15 years.
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