A corrupt education institution
The district office is still owing educators some monies for services rendered
Concerned educators write:
Allow me to reveal some of the secrets at the Riba Cross district office. Secrets because there is no department that will allow its employees to be dragged in serious debts. When you enter their offices you are welcomed by posters of batho pele, but I doubt it whether those principles are well comprehended.
It becomes a contradictory scenario because when you require services or make enquiries regarding payments for which you have been waiting for some months, you are labelled and censored.
It has become open secrets that temporary educators are punished for their service rendered. The district office is still owing us money, somewhere between January and April.
Teachers are employed for instance from January until December, but when payments come, they will find that they are remunerated for May and June and the past four months they forfeit. In some instance, especially in January educators received R2 000 and others were paid R3 000 and that’s all. Some educators are quiet, because they feared to be victimised.
We are talking about putting the department in serious debts because we believe these teachers will demand their money at a stage, dragging the department back into administration. This is reality and not a fabricated type of information. We need to consider this before it’s too late.
The so-called acting district manager is failing the department. We suspect there is a chain of corrupt officials within the district who are manipulating the educators funds for their own benefit.
What is frustrating is that many teachers are aware of this, but they are also puzzled by this bureaucracy. They can’t be assisted either by their principals or their circuit managers.
They end up stuck, leaving the learners running to Lebowakgomo for information which they are not sure of, because they get the same people from Riba Cross who are claiming to process salaries and who are transported on daily basis to and fro. Then it becomes a merry-go-round type of situation using public funds.
We request to pass these grievances to the HOD and MEC for education in Limpopo to make a speedy interference before they experience serious damage. We also urge educators with the same problems to come on board to remedy these scourge. They are not there to service the people but to make a sabotage of some kind as such causing suicide to the entire province. We can see the smoke and obviously there is a flame. Better take this back to its roots.
