16 HEAD TEACHERS FACE TSC FOR MISCONDUCT

MBABANE – The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has hauled 16 head teachers before it for different cases of misconduct.

 One of those is Esigangeni High School Head teacher Daniel Ryan, who has been hauled before the TSC to present evidence into alleged misconduct.
Ryan was suspended by the Ministry of Education and Training following findings in the Auditor General’s Report in March 2014, on which he was questioned by the PAC.

Evidence

He presented to the commission on Friday while the school committee presented evidence before the commission on the same day.
Ryan confessed to the committee that he and ex-school Chairperson Sandile Shiba misused school funds. One of his claims was that they were controlled by ‘snake demons’.
Consequently, a withdrawal of thousands of Emalangeni in their case was unaccounted for.

Also to appear before the TSC is Mduduzi Bhembe. He is also the President of the Swaziland Principals Association.
Bhembe was suspended by the Ministry of Education and Training on October 5, 2015 following 48 complaints of alleged misconduct against him.
He was charged with over 40 counts.

He was alleged to have, among other things, assisted a female private candidate to copy and further write most of the papers twice during the sitting of Form V examinations in 2012.
It is alleged that during the 2012 SGCSE Examination, he helped one Nontsikelelo Portia Dlamini, who was a private candidate in the school (Mbekelweni High School) to write a number of papers twice.

Scripts

He allegedly took some of the scripts belonging to a full-time pupil and gave them to Dlamini to copy.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, in most instances he would take scripts of one Machawe Vilakati, who was a full-time pupil, and gave them to the female private candidate to copy.
The papers, which Bhembe allegedly assisted Dlamini to write twice, include English Language Paper I, English Language Paper II, Mathematics Paper I, Mathematics Paper II, Physical Science Paper III, Mathematics Paper III. He is alleged to have further assisted the female private candidate to copy from Vilakati.

He is said to have given Dlamini the English Language Paper II scripts, after the paper was written.
Bhembe is further said to have opened a sealed envelope containing candidates’ scripts after the examination had been written and took out an English Language Paper I script belonging to Vilakati and gave it to Dlamini.
“By so doing you contravened the 24-hour security rule intended to ensure that all candidates’ scripts are kept safe as per the Examination Council of Swaziland Regulations,” reads part of the document containing the complaints against Bhembe.
Some of those charged include Msunduza Primary School Head teacher  Lucky Zwane, St Mark’s Primary School Head teacher Albert Fakudze and Lucky Mhlanga.

Charges

Mhlanga appeared before the TSC disciplinary team on Tuesday. Fakudze is one of the head teachers who has most charges preferred against him.
On the first charge, he is accused of using an unauthorised receipt, where he allegedly received an income amounting to E41 700.

On the second count, he is charged with charging unauthorised top-up fees back in 2013, wherein a sum of E631 371 was collected, but was never accounted for.
He is further charged with using a Building Society Savings Account that schools are not allowed to open.

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