‘Girls, not women’ in teacher sex video

THE KZN Department of Education remains adamant that a sex video teacher has a case of statutory rape to answer, despite his lawyer disputing the allegations.

The teacher at a high school in Nquthu has denied he was filmed with under-age schoolgirls in a video he shot himself that circulated on social media late last week.

His lawyer, Bruce Macgregor, said three women, who appeared in separately filmed videos having sex with the teacher, were adults in their late twenties and early thirties.

He said one was the teacher’s common-law wife.

However, education spokesman Sicelo Khuzwayo insisted yesterday that the teacher was not off the hook because, he said, the “women” were under-age schoolgirls.

He said on MEC Mxolisi Kaunda’s visit to the school, he held meetings with teachers, the principal, school governing body members, education district officials and the student leadership, and they all identified the girls and their grades.

“All gave the MEC similar versions of what happened,” he said. “It was explained that all those in the footage were schoolgirls. Other girls also came forward to confess that they had slept with the teacher.”

Khuzwayo said after hearing that there were other teachers allegedly involved in sexual relationships with schoolgirls, Kaunda commissioned an official to conduct a thorough investigation, the report on which would be handed to him in two weeks’ time.

Macgregor said the teacher had appointed him to institute a defamation case against the media and Kaunda for tarnishing his image.

He said his client had not gone back to work after pupils had burnt down his cottage at the school, but that he was not in hiding.

Macgregor said after he had told the police that there were no schoolgirls in the video, the police changed their minds about arresting the teacher. But Kaunda said the teacher had not been arrested because he had gone into hiding.

“The whereabouts of the teacher is unknown. If you can interview (police spokesman) Thulani Zwane, he would tell you that police are looking for the teacher, but they can’t find him,” said Khuzwayo.

Zwane confirmed that the teacher had not been arrested, but said that police would no longer comment on the matter because it was sensitive.