/ 20 June 2007

Competition winner disqualified

Mapaseka Khanye (12) was disqualified as the winner in the SABC’s Lights Camera Action Story Writing Competition. the Teacher published an interview with Khanye last month.

Khanye, a learner from Mampudi Primary School in Vosloorus on Gauteng’s East Rand, was disqualified after it was found that her story, titled There was a boy called little boy, had been lifted word for word from an already published work by Rita Phillips Mitchells.

SABC’s Jacqui Hlongwane-Papo moved quickly to disqualify Khanye and declared Dorcas Malahlela (16) from Southview High School in Lenasia South as the winner. Her story is about a girl who cannot swim.