MAKING MOONLIGHTING WORK

At the start of 2013, Peter Motloung was acting principal, as well as a maths and science teacher at Falesizwe Secondary School in Frankfort. By November, he had been dismissed by the school and beginning a legal battle that would continue until 2016. Motloung was fired for earning extra cash as a municipal councillor at the Mafube Local Municipality, without his employer, the Department of Education’s approval.

After a lengthy legal process, Motloung was reinstated without back-pay in December 2014. Judge Hilary Rabkin-Naicker explained the mitigating circumstances for overruling the dismissal. “The