WCED under fire for protecting official involved in bribery Share Cape Town - Concerns have been raised over the underbelly of the provinceâs education system following continuous cases of bribery and corruption by senior officials serving under the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). While the department had last month pointed out the number of officials, teachers and principals disciplined for fraud and theft, the public specifically raised questions over officials who still serve under the WCED even though they had been fingered in corruption. The department has been criticised for protecting a senior official who allegedly bribed a teacher with a position if he co-operated with the department by falsely testifying in a disciplinary hearing against Heathfield High school principal Wesley Neumann.