An East London teacher who allegedly touched the private parts of a grade 5 pupil and made her watch pornography in a classroom has been fired after he was found guilty by the Education Labour Relations Council.
A Qonce teacher accused of fondling the breasts of a 12-year-old pupil and instructing her to keep it secret has been fired by the education department after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of sexual harassment. The teacher, whose name is known to DispatchLIVE (http://www.dispatchlive.co.
Projecting blame onto implementing agents for a R205m loss meant for the rehabilitation of schools is an irresponsible, cowardly act and shows how the department of education is in absolute denial.
Less than a week after it came to light that the Eastern Cape education department lost R205m meant for the rehabilitation of schools, officials have pointed a finger at implementing agents who they say did not perform optimally in the 2021/2022 financial year. The department’s infrastructure grant was stopped by the national department of basic education because of the provincial department’s inability to spend the money.
In a province where schools are plagued by some of the worst infrastructure in the country, the Eastern Cape education department has let R205m meant to accelerate construction, maintenance, upgrading and rehabilitation of schools slip through its fingers. Because of the department’s inability to spend the money, crumbling schools will remain at risk of caving in and pupils will go without basic necessities.
Every day, thousands of pupils from Gqeberha’s most impoverished areas get ready for school, donning uniforms their parents worked hard to be able to buy.
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