Pulled video proves that the teacher had sexual relationships with the learner

A teacher from the Golf View secondary school in Mahikeng, Northwest, was released after he found himself guilty because of a sexual relationship with a student.

The Education Labor Relations Council (ELRC) released Modise Mocomele on May 5 after an arbitration negotiation, in which explicit videos and photos were presented as evidence.

The scandal appeared when a video that Mocomele supposedly showed, a sexual act with the student, which was identified as a learner B, began to circulate among the school students.

Witnesses said during the ELRC hearing and confirmed that the film material was widespread. Learner B had reportedly trusted another student about her relationship with Mocomele after her first tests in 2024.

Although Learner B was warned of the risks, he continued the relationship.

During the hearing, the ELRC referee Monde Boyce said concerned about the increasing frequency of the misconduct of teachers in which the students were involved, and found that such cases almost reached the crisis level. Boyce came to the conclusion that Mocomele was unsuitable to work with children and ordered that his name would be set to the child protection register of the Department of Social Development.

A teacher at the school, Reading Mosweu, said that after receiving the explicit content, she was shocked by WhatsApp and that she had immediately reported to the headmaster Daniel Manone.

Although Mocomele denied the allegations, both Manone and Mosweu identified him in the video and Boyce did not think his rejections were convincing.

In a related case, the ELRC also released Paseka Molefe, the headmistress of the Letsatsing Secondary School in Mmabatho, after finding that he sexually attacked an 8th grade student.

Molefe supposedly grabbed the student's waist and made inappropriate comments.

The Department for Education Department in the northwest encouraged the learners to speak against sexual victimization and repeat the importance of educators for maintaining professional limits.

The spokesman for the department, Mphata Molokwane, said neither mocomele nor Molefe stated whether they were planning to appeal against the layoffs.