{"id":13820,"date":"2014-04-29T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:21:45","slug":"sadtu-sickened-by-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13820","title":{"rendered":"Sadtu &#8216;sickened&#8217; by corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13821\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu.jpg\" alt=\"sadtu\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu-148x83.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu-31x17.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu-38x21.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has called on anyone with evidence that its members are involved in reported cash-for-jobs scandal to come forward calling the practice &#8220;sickening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The City Press has revealed that Sadtu officials are said to be selling positions for a minimum of R30 000 to teachers in KwaZulu-Natal, the North West and in Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>Sadtu&#8217;s general secretary Mugwena Maluleke says if any member is found to be involved, the union will take strong action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t allow any officials in our union to be involved in crime because it\u2019s sickening to make a teacher or member of the public to pay for a post, what kind of people are we in this country to allow such things?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Sadtu says anyone who sells jobs for cash is acting as an individual and must not bring the union into disrepute by using its name.<\/p>\n<p>Maluleke added: &#8220;We must make sure we root out corruption in the Department of Education and Sadtu is leading in that area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: EWN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has called on anyone with evidence that its members are involved in reported cash-for-jobs scandal to come forward calling the practice &#8220;sickening&#8221;. The City Press has revealed that Sadtu officials are said to be selling positions for a minimum of R30 000 to teachers in KwaZulu-Natal, the North West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sadtu &#8216;sickened&#8217; by corruption&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8868,219,2718],"class_list":["post-13820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cash-for-jobs","tag-corruption","tag-sadtu"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sadtu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","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=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13822,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions\/13822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}