{"id":10068,"date":"2013-09-06T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T14:42:49","slug":"wits-fires-two-black-sex-pests-and-now-white-prof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10068","title":{"rendered":"Wits fires two black sex pests and now white prof"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10069\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lastmoyo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10069\" alt=\"Dr Last Moyo\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lastmoyo.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Last Moyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The University of the Witwatersrand has been rocked by a scandal involving predatory sexual behaviour towards young students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A white political studies professor was fired this week for alleged sexual harassment after accusations of making sexual advances to students via SMS and on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the university declined to reveal the identity of the academic, citing legal reasons, The Star was reliably informed that it was Rupert Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The university\u2019s decision on Taylor brings to three the number of academics fired since the university launched its investigation to root out sex pests at the institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recommendation to ban on relationships between lecturers and undergraduates has been made in a report compiled by a legal committee after Wits commissioned an independent inquiry into the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8221;There is indeed a problem of sexual harassment at the university,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee also proposed the establishment of a sexual harassment and safety office, and recommended that all such relationships be disclosed in writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The student will be contacted to ensure that the relationship is consensual . and all information will be absolutely confidential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sunday Times revealed in March that drama lecturer Tsepo wa Mamatu was facing accusations of molesting 10 female students. An investigation was launched into four more lecturers after students came forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wa Mamatu and media studies lecturer Dr Last Moyo were sacked on July 31 after being found guilty of sexual harassment. Both denied the allegations. &#8211; timeslive.co.za\/IOL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of the Witwatersrand has been rocked by a scandal involving predatory sexual behaviour towards young students. A white political studies professor was fired this week for alleged sexual harassment after accusations of making sexual advances to students via SMS and on Facebook. While the university declined to reveal the identity of the academic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wits fires two black sex pests and now white prof&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5893,1470,137],"class_list":["post-10068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-predatory-sexual-behaviour","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-university-of-the-witwatersrand"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lastmoyo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10070,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions\/10070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}