Newly-promoted KZN principal's home torched just weeks after classrooms were burnt at her school

• The home of a KwaZulu-Natal school principal has been torched.
• The attack comes two weeks after classrooms at the school were set alight.
• Sadtu says her home was torched just days after she had been promoted.

A KwaZulu-Natal school principal’s home was torched over the weekend, only two weeks after classrooms at her school were set alight.

Education MEC Mbali Frazer said the home of the KwaNogcoyi Primary School principal was set alight on Sunday, just days after she was promoted.

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Frazer added that the school had also been targeted two weeks ago, with teaching disrupted and two classrooms burnt.

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act of torching school infrastructure. Our principals, as managers of educational institutions, should be protected and respected. They should not be subjected to such brutality," she said.

Frazer said that her department’s infrastructure budget was already under serve strain as a result of flooding and storm damage in the province, as well as ageing infrastructure.

Frazer added:

Meanwhile, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) in the province called for police action.

Sadtu provincial secretary Nomarashiya Caluza said the union believed the incident was linked to the principal's promotion last Thursday.

"The incident is the last straw that has broken the camel’s back. Sadtu members in the area and the school have, for quite some time, been working in hostile environment dominated by political interference," she said.

The union said it had raised concerns about the management of the school prior to the new principal's appointment.