TheTimes.jpg SADTU wants school arsonists punished Says 'agents' and 'handlers' must be exposed TMG Digital, The Times, Johannesburg, 3 June 2016 The South African Democratic Teachers Union's (SADTU) national leadership has condemned the burning of schools during community protests, and called for increased protection of teachers and pupils. "We may not have the full merits and demerits of the various cases that led to the burning of infrastructure, what we know is that the destruction cannot be a solution," SADTU said in a statement on Friday night after a meeting of its national executive committee. "We urge the law enforcement agencies, particularly those within the intelligence space to get to the bottom of this trend to ensure that the guilty can be prosecuted and their handlers can be exposed," the NEC resolved. "Our children's future cannot and should not be used as a bargaining tool to find immediate solutions". The teachers union said that practical steps must be taken protect the teachers and pupils at schools. "Those who are responsible for the violence must be apprehended." SADTU, noting the recent violent protests on university campuses nationwide, claimed "agents of a regressive agenda masquerading as dissatisfied students" were to blame for the destruction of infrastructure at institutions of higher learning. Commenting on the SABC's controversial ban on showing violent protest footage, SADTU's leadership said: "The NEC fully supports the SABC decision not to broadcast this violence because we as teachers are responsible for building a violence-free society. We fully understand that the SABC will still provide the public with impartial, accurate and balanced information about violent protest without having to celebrate violence by showing such shocking visuals". From: http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2016/06/03/Sadtu-wants-school-arsonists-pun ished%E2%80%9A-says-agents-and-handlers-must-be-exposed -- -- 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.
