The SECRETARY of Sadtu KwaZulu-Natal, Ms. Nomarashiya Caluza said that the provincial Education Department has not come forward and explained what the law is that governs the work of principals in schools.
Ms Caluza said this following the suspension of the principal of Mkhumbane Secondary School, Chesterville, Mr Ntokozo Ngobese, on Tuesday.
It has been two weeks since learning and teaching in this school has been disrupted following the fact that 22 teachers from the Sadtu union have not attended the school.
It is said that they want cameras that record pictures and sound to be removed from the classrooms.
It was expected that there would be a meeting of the parents, the department and the teachers when it was revealed that the department had sent an inspector to the school on Tuesday.
It turned out that the inspector was going to give the principal a letter stating that he was being suspended from the school for three months for alleged misconduct.
It is said that the letter was not bad about what misconduct he was accused of and was appointed there.
Ms. Caluza who was contacted byIt’s the weekend he said the thing that has bedeviled the system in all this chaos is the lack of communication.
“Find the department first to explain in detail its policy and the performance of the teachers. The principal should have consulted with the teachers first before installing the cameras,” said Ms. Caluza.
He lamented that cameras not only record images, but also record sound.
“We cannot have someone sitting in his office, busy watching and listening to teachers teaching,” he said.
He went on to say that the biggest problem with this matter is that the teachers were not discussed, but they saw that it had already been included.
He suggested that school leaders respect their fellow teachers so that there is peace in schools.
The President of Natu, Mr. Sibusiso Malinga, when contacted by a journalist on Wednesday, said that the issue is new to them, they do not know.
He said that if there are decisions to be made about the school, there should be all the bodies of the body that controls the management of the school.
“In this body there are representatives of students, parents as well as teachers. If there are any changes made in the school, they are made in a meeting attended by these bodies. If it is the parents who say that cameras should not be installed in the school, that should appear in the minutes of the meeting where that decision was taken,” said Malinga.
He said that they are Natu, they are worried if learning is hindered.
“The department does not intervene, so that learning is not interrupted,” said Malinga, who said that one possible solution is for the cameras to be turned on after the school leaves if there is a complaint about the theft of property.
He said that they do not know what the principal is being appointed to, however he said that the law says that the allegations against him should not be mentioned in the letter that says he should be suspended.
Meanwhile, It is a country At the weekend contacted one of the parents, Ms. Xolile Buhlalu on Thursday, and revealed that they went to protest outside the Berea Primary school where they were told that inspectors were staying.
He said they were listened to by a member of Parliament, who told them it was Radebe. He said he promised them that today the Minister of Education Mr. Sipho Hlomuka will come to listen to their complaints.
He pointed out that the lock installed by the parents is still closed at the school, and learning and teaching are not going on. They are currently planning to open the school next week and continue the teaching of temporary teachers who will be paid by the parents.
“We don’t need these people who have lost their studies, we don’t need them in our school anymore. We are standing by the fact that the cameras are not going anywhere and we need the principal back,” he said.
It’s on the weekend tried to get the spokespersons of the department, Mr. Muzi Mahlambi and Mr. Mlungisi Mtshali, but their calls were not picked up.