Seven years after he made sexually suggestive remarks to a 13-year-old in his class, a Cape Town teacher’s attempts to clear his name have suffered their fifth defeat.
Monde Chris Satani, who is still teaching at Bardale Primary School in Mfuleni, has been ordered by the Labour Court in Cape Town to pay a R6,000 fine imposed in 2012.Judge Anton Steenkamp said it would be unfair to make the Western Cape education department keep paying legal bills in the case and ordered Satani to pay the costs it incurred defending his latest court challenge.
Steenkamp said in his judgment last week: “According to the learner, Mr Satani asked her if she knew that she was beautiful.”He referred an unfair labour practice dispute to the Education Labour Relations Council, which dismissed his case. A new arbitration was ordered, where Satani was defeated again. Last week’s fifth defeat was the outcome of his application for a review of the second arbitration.
“He found that there was no plausible reason why [she] would have fabricated her evidence. The arbitrator arrived at a reasonable result on the evidence before him,” he said.He said Satani should have admitted defeat after the second arbitration, “yet chose to continue litigating, attorney and counsel at his side, even in the arbitration process, which is meant to be quick and informal, and usually without legal representation.
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