City Press reports that education authorities and the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) are set to face a series of court challenges from aggrieved teachers and principals who believe they are victims of a jobs-for-cash scam run by corrupt department officials in cahoots with their union counterparts.  

On Friday, Bo Dlamini, the former principal of Durban’s Brettonwood High School, served a letter of demand for R15 million on the department and Sadtu over his dismissal in 2009.  Dlamini, then a senior official at rival union Natu, made the decision to go to court after reading the report by the Volmink commission of inquiry into the jobs-for-cash scam.  His action follows a similar letter of demand for R10 million served on the KZN education department by Nkonzo Mqadi, who claims he was removed from the system after refusing to continue paying R1,000 a month to a Sadtu provincial executive committee member.  Elsewhere, the Port Elizabeth Labour Court will sit in November to hear an application by Queenstown teacher Gaynor Rittles, who is challenging the appointment process at St Theresa’s Primary School.

• Read this report by Paddy Harper in full at City Press

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