Glenview calls for SGB probe

HOT ON the heels of an explosive report exposing corruption at Glenvista High School, another school wants the Gauteng Education Department to investigate its financial affairs.

Glenview Primary School in Alberton wants the department to institute a forensic audit of its financial affairs.

The previous governing body (SGB) approached the district office last year to investigate allegations of corruption, but its plea fell on deaf ears.

After seeing Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi’s tough action against Glenvista, the former SGB escalated the matter to the provincial department.

Former Glenview SGB chairman Enoch Malisa said the members sent a report stating their concerns to the district office last year, but were ignored. Among the things the SGB complained about were:

The principal’s daughter and deputy principal’s relative were hired as contract teachers’ assistants and received medical aid contributions and retirement annuity respectively from school funds.

When the company running the canteen did not renew its contract, the principal allegedly appointed her daughter to run it and she allegedly used R18 000 of the school funds for stock.

Departmental spokeswoman Phumla Sekhonyane said the department had received the report. She said it was waiting for a recommendation to institute a forensic audit.

Last week, Lesufi and his team opened criminal cases against the former SGB chairperson and principal of Glenvista High School for corruption amounting to about R8 million.

The principal was accused of using school funds to pay tax and levies for his holiday home, among other things.