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News24 reports that over the financial year ended March 2025, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) booted out a total of 39 teachers after finding them guilty of sexual misconduct.
A KwaZulu-Natal teacher who kissed a pupil on the mouth and "took her hand and touched his penis" became the fortieth teacher to be fired after his dismissal on Tuesday. A total of 111 sexual misconduct cases were referred to the ELRC between April 2024 and March 2025, compared to 82 from April 2023 to March 2024. The ELRC did not indicate the factors behind the increase. Basil Manuel of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa) said: "Let's not characterise these people as teachers ... the system will unfortunately always have people who slip through the cracks." ELRC general secretary Cindy Foca reported that the names of the 39 teachers had been were submitted to the Department of Social Development for inclusion in the Child Protection Register. She said training programmes had to be developed to ensure that pupils were well-informed of their rights and that teachers were continuously reminded of the sanctions that would be imposed if they violated these rights.
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