News24 reports that the SA Council for Educators (SACE) has painted a bleak picture of the incidence of sexual offences committed by educators in schools around the country, saying there had been a sharp increase.
SACE CEO Matseliso Dipholo told journalists on Monday that the council was expecting the rest of its financial year to be busy as an increased number of complaints of sexual offences had been brought to them to investigate this year. According to Dipholo, corporal punishment cases have also increased this year with 140 cases under investigation, compared to the 160 cases investigated in the same period last year. She said the council had also recorded an increase in cases of assaults against colleagues.
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