City Press Newest.png SADTU fights back Sipho Masondo, City Press, Johannesburg, 8 May 2016 SADTU secretary Mugwena Maluleke told City Press on Friday: "We are not going to interdict the minister from releasing the report. We also want it to be released. After all, it is us who called for the investigation into the jobs-for-cash scandal. But we will go to court to enforce our rights. We will go to court to force the task team to allow us to make representations to it, it is our right." The scandal was exposed by a City Press investigation two years ago, which revealed that principals' positions were being sold for upwards of R30 000. Teachers' posts were also being sold for livestock and cash amounts of as little as R6 000. A draft report, the findings of which City Press published in December, found SADTU was in "de facto" control of six provincial education departments. Volmink also found SADTU had gained control by "using militancy to exert pressure on its members to be unionists first and professionals second". The report also found the wide-scale selling of posts. Thumb-suck City Press understands the representations the union wants to make to the panel includes a claim that Volmink's team "thumb-sucked its findings and has no facts to back them up". A source close to the union's legal team said the union would also argue that Volmink's team "strayed away from their terms of reference, used the wrong methodology in their investigation, and wrongfully and unfairly targets the organisation". The union commissioned its own lawyers to produce a 90-page report and legal opinion, which rubbishes Volmink's findings. Maluleke confirmed the union sought legal opinion on the preliminary report. "We found that the methodology was flawed. The findings were not based on facts, but on innuendos, opinion and suggestions. The report also dabbled into the relationship between us, COSATU, the ANC and the SA Communist Party. The fact is that the task team has made serious flaws. They have also made unfounded allegations." Maluleke said Volmink was dragging his feet in honouring Motshekga's directive that all teachers' unions should be allowed to comment and make representations on the report. From: http://city-press.news24.com/News/sadtu-fights-jobs-for-cash-report-20160507 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
