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News24 reports that the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has booted out a maths educator who had sex with a pupil after plying her with alcohol in his room and getting her drunk.
The pupil, who was 18 years old at the time of the incident in March 2021, fell pregnant and subsequently gave birth. On 13 June, the ELRC found Sabelo Dladla, a teacher from Mxhume Secondary School in Ntabankulu, in the Eastern Cape, guilty of sexual assault. The arbitrator, Mbulelo Safa, also found him unsuitable to work with children and directed the ELRC to notify the Department of Social Development to include his name in the Child Protection Register. The arbitration hearing, which was previously set down for 18 April, was postponed after Dladla submitted a medical certificate. He produced a sick note again when the hearing reconvened on 30 and 31 May, but it continued in his absence. The arbitrator indicated: “The complainant testified she did not consent to having sex with the employee and may not have consented because she was intoxicated. Having sex with her without consent amounted to sexual assault.” He pointed out that, in terms of the Act, an educator must be dismissed if found guilty of committing sexual assault or having a sexual relationship with a learner.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Prega Govender at News24
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