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News24 reports that the dismissals of five members of the branch committee at Unisa of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) were confirmed following an arbitration hearing by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) that ended in February.
The branch general secretary Tshembani Valoyi, was among those who were dismissed. The other dismissed union officials were Lunathi Hontoti, Julia Mahlangu, Crystal Adams and Tebogo Msabala. The five were fired on 6 May 2022 after a string of complaints were levelled against them, including insolence for publicly disrespecting, humiliating, and insulting the vice-chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula. They were also accused of disrupting the autumn graduation ceremonies in March 2022, and "violating the integrity of the academic programme which resulted in bringing the name of the university into disrepute". CCMA commissioner AA Breedt found the dismissal of the five to have been substantively fair but procedurally unfair. He found that the five chose to ignore the negative impact their conduct had on graduates and the university as an entity and were instrumental in bringing the university to a complete standstill during the period 15 to 26 March 2022. As a result of the procedurally unfair dismissals, Unisa was ordered to pay compensation to the applicants. The institution had until 15 March to pay R683,840 to the five.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Prega Govender at News24
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