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News24 reports that Lubeko Mgandela, a former Eastern Cape school principal who instructed a pupil to search for his lost phone among faeces in a pit toilet, has been removed from the register of educators and will never be allowed to work with children again.
SA Council of Educators (SACE) chief executive officer Ella Mokgalane informed the Eastern Cape education department of the sanction last Tuesday. The decision came after the council hauled Mgandela before a disciplinary committee for a hearing in May 2021. On 1 March last year, the 49-year-old former Luthuthu Junior Secondary School principal forced an 11-year-old pupil to try to recover his cellphone in a pit toilet. The device fell into the pit toilet while Mgandela was using it. The incident caused uproar and people called for his arrest and dismissal. The Tsomo Magistrate's Court sentenced Mgandela to 24 months in prison or a R4,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to child abuse. The Eastern Cape education department fired him.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Malibongwe Dayimani at News24
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