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Curro Holdings, an independent school group, issued an apology on Monday for a social media post that went viral because it depicted racial stereotypes.

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‘Curro Holdings acknowledges that a post we published on social media portraying children in various workplace contexts was offensive due to the inappropriate stereotypes it depicted,’ the company said.

‘The post was in error and has been deleted.’

Curro apologised for the offence and stated that they were urgently following their internal processes to fully understand the circumstances of the post in order to prevent the error from occurring again.

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‘Curro reiterates its commitment to diversity and non-racialism in our schools.’

Numerous people on X have spoken out about Curro’s post, which depicts a black child as a cashier and a white child as a veterinarian.

An X user named Her Majesty inquired whether the child could not be a nurse or a teacher. ‘Out of so many career choices they chose cashier’.

Tshepho Letlalo stated that Curro believes that black people’s destiny is to work as cashiers, whereas white people can pursue other careers.

Ntshieng claimed that Curro regards black children as mere till operators.

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‘Why does Curro give the black girl the dream of a job as a cashier while the white girls can dream to become vets?’ asked Vimlesh Rajbansi.

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