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Sowetan reports that classroom brawls have led the South African Council of Educators (Sace) to launch a teachers’ rights responsibilities and safety programme.
Sace spokesperson Themba Ndhlovu stated last week that the increasing prevalence of violence in schools against teachers was a worrying factor. He went on to explain: “It has become a phenomenon for teachers to report cases of violence against them by pupils. Whenever we engage with the teachers they always report that they are being harassed by pupils. [Many] of these are also showing up on social media, hence we have decided to launch the teacher’s rights responsibilities and safety programme.” Sace would be taking the programme around the country and was also running focus group interviews to identify the issues teachers faced. “The right to education means the right to a safe teaching environment. The council has a duty to make sure that teachers are safe at all times,” Ndhlovu stated. Sace hopes that the researchers will come up with a booklet that will detail what teachers go through in schools and also what needs to be done to assist teachers as some of them are scared to report these cases.
- Read the full original of Yoliswa Sobuwa’s report in the above regard on page 11 of Sowetan of 29 April 2019
- Read too, Threats to safety causing teachers to stay away from work, at The Sunday Independent
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