SowetanLive reports that a school teacher with a criminal record for murder was among those whose applications for a police clearance certificate was turned down.
This emerged following 2,983 teachers having applied for registration status with the SA Council of Educators (Sace) or for an update thereof. Sace previously announced that teachers registering with it would have to produce police clearance certificates as a way for the organisation to keep sex pests out of the classrooms. Between April 2016 and March 2017 there were reportedly 99 incidents of sexual misconduct involving teachers, including rape. Themba Ndhlovu of Sace said three teachers out of the 2,983 applicants were turned down. "There were three educators who were found to have been charged with murder, possession of an unlicensed firearm and assault cases. They will be called into a committee where they will be subjected to a hearing," Ndhlovu said. He indicated that the committee would establish their rehabilitation status and their fitness to take up the teaching positions. Ndhlovu could not rule out the possibilities of the teachers being allowed to teach again. "At Sace we don't have dustbins for human beings, that is why we are giving them a second chance."
- Read the full original version by Yoliswa Sobuwa of this story at SowetanLive
- Read too, Department guns for teachers with criminal records, at Independent News
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