TimesLive Premium reports that a teacher who was sacked for misconduct after being found guilty of disrupting a fundraising event at school has lost his bid for reinstatement.

In a recent award, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) confirmed that the dismissal of Lwazi Zulu, a former teacher at Illinge High School in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, had been “procedurally and substantively fair”. Zulu was booted out in June 2021 and lost a subsequent departmental appeal against his dismissal. He then lodged a dispute with the ELRC. Zulu was charged and found guilty of conducting himself in a disgraceful and unacceptable manner by pushing over tables and throwing money collected from the pupils on the floor during a fundraising civvies day event in July 2019. He was also found guilty of intimidating and victimising the principal, Phindiwe Jakuda, in April 2019. According to the ELRC award, Zulu had also previously been found guilty of misconduct and had been suspended from duty in June 2019, without pay. He had been given a final written warning for that offence. In comment on the ELRC’s award, SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) provincial secretary for Gauteng, Tseliso Ledimo, said it was “regrettable” to lose a job. “We are going to analyse the award and determine prospects of success at the labour court,” she indicated.

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