The group has written an open letter to Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor demanding that she should institute a register of offenders to avoid perpetrators from being employed elsewhere in the sector.
JOHANNESBURG - A group of academics from different higher learning institutions have urged government to launch a special enquiry into sexual offences meted against staff and students.
The academics who describe themselves as a collective of black women and gender non-binary people said students are also vulnerable to the abuse. Dr Siphokazi Magadla a co-signatory to the letter said: “The single institution approach is clearly not successful. We need the sector to make a strong response around questions of sexual violence and offences.”
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