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Cape Times reports that a total of 11 teachers have been axed by the Department of Basic Education after they were found guilty of a range of charges, including sexual misconduct.
The SA Council of Educators (Sace) on Tuesday appeared before Parliament where it listed cases of misconduct against teachers. The council received 443 cases of misconduct against educators for the 2020/21 financial year. During the briefing to Parliament’s portfolio committee on education, Sace chief executive Ella Mokgalane broke down the figures per quarter since April 2020. The top three categories of cases of professional and unethical misconduct against educators during the period under review included corporal punishment and assault; sexual misconduct, which included rape, indecent assault, sexual assault and sexual harassment; and verbal abuse or use of improper language, victimisation, harassment, defamation among other things. Mokgalane gave a breakdown of the 11 teachers removed from the Sace register per province. Five of those misconduct cases were linked to sexual misconduct, which saw two Gauteng teachers, one Free State teacher, one North West teacher and one teacher from the Western Cape being fired. The Sace report indicated that the ability to finalise cases had been impacted due to disruptions in the schooling system and lack of access to the children as witnesses. This had escalated the number of roll-over cases.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tarryn-Leigh Solomons at Cape Times
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