Gauteng teacher's claim of unfair dismissal fails after appointment dispute.
A Gauteng woman who believed she had been appointed to teach bricklaying at a special school has lost her unfair dismissal case after an Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) arbitrator found that she was never employed by the Gauteng Department of Education and therefore could not have been dismissed.
Arbitrator Monde Boyce found that N Makobe failed to prove that an employment relationship existed between her and the department.
The dispute arose after Makobe applied for a bricklaying teaching position at Bosele Special School in Krugersdorp.
According to her evidence, she had completed her profile on the Gauteng unemployed teachers website in January 2026 after completing an Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Training in December 2025. She subsequently applied for several teaching positions and responded to an advert for a bricklaying post at Bosele Special School.
