Four senior teachers at the Windhoek Gymnasium Private School will appear in court on 30 August facing charges of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after they gave a grade 9 pupil a hiding with a blunt wooden object. This allegedly led the boy to be extremely traumatized and forced him to leave the school and join a different one. The Director of the school defends the actions of the teachers by saying that they acted within the school’s policies.