The teacher implicated in the so-called ‘sex video’ scandal at a Nquthu high school has issued lawyer’s letters to ‘all media outlets (sic)’ and threatened to take legal action and claim damages for reporting that he had had sex with minors at the school.

The letter, which identifies the teacher (is yet to be identified by the Courier), claims that ‘he (the teacher) denies having sexual relationships with minor learners and strongly disputes the existence of such video clips and points out the video clips relate to videos of himself and previous sexual partners who were at the time majors and are certainly
not accordingly minor learners.’

“Your publications are defamatory of our client in the extreme and have served to inflame an already inherently volatile situation which also poses a danger to our client’s safety. In this regard, this mischievous reporting has resulted in vigilantes burning down the cottage in which our client was staying which resulted in all his possessions
being burnt.”

The cottage was burnt down on Thursday the day before the Courier broke the news on the website.

The letter goes on to say that he ‘strong disputes reports that he is on the run as the SAPS have not issued a warrant of arrest’.  The MEC of Education, Mthandeni Dlungwane, last Thursday opened a charge himself at the Nquthu police station.  The letter demands that the ‘publication of clarifications of such failings’ or face an interdict to limit further damage to their client.