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City Press reports that the deputy head of the Pretoria High School for Girls, Danica Stoffberg, has been suspended without pay for a month because she signed an employment contract for a gardener last year.
At the time, she was the acting principal because Phillipa Erasmus, the school principal, had been suspended pending an investigation at the school. The Gauteng Department of Education (DOE) found Stoffberg guilty of appointing someone without following the correct procedure. According to the DOE, Erasmus was supposed to sign the contract, even though she had been suspended. Stoffberg has chosen not to appeal her suspension. It was reported last week that Erasmus was suspended without pay for three months after being found guilty on two of the three charges against her. These involved her husband voluntarily maintaining the school’s gardens, which “could create the impression of nepotism” and her failure to adequately support the school governing body in appointing a financial manager. Erasmus has lodged an appeal. In a circular sent to parents on Thursday, Craig Hezlett, chairperson of the school governing body (SGB), said both the SGB and the school felt that Stoffberg’s suspension was inappropriate because the gardener’s appointment had been approved. Hezlett said the gardener’s three-month probation period had ended and the SGB decided to appoint him full-time.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ruhan Friedrichs at City Press (subscription / trial registration required)
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