MEDIA STATEMENT
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) is disturbed and perturbed by the recent allegations of sexual relations, harassment, and victimisation by some teachers in our province.
As a union of professionals and custodians of all children under our care, we are bound by the Code of Conduct, Professional Ethics as enshrined in SACE, signed Collective Agreements and all laws governing and protecting our children.
We wish to reiterate our position of condemning any such heinous and unprofessional acts while calling on the Department of Education to follow all due legal processes to act against perpetrators of such conduct.
We call on all teachers in general and our members in particular, to uphold their loco parentis status and protect all children as they would like their own biological children to be taught and protected.
We regret the pain caused to the majority of teachers by the isolated but barbaric actions of few individuals, who find themselves to be amongst us in schools.
We call on stakeholders and the entire society to work together with SADTU to defeat this scourge of unethical and unbecoming conduct.
All schools should be safe havens for all children.
ISSUED BY : SADTU EC Provincial Secretariat