The Eastern Cape Department of Education has condemned the brazing kidnapping of a teacher at a school in the Nelson Mandela Bay District on Monday morning.
The 45-year-old teacher was snatched at around 8 am as she entered the school premises.
Her identity has not been released.
Eastern Cape police said three suspects were seen driving a white Toyota Corolla.
Weighing in on the conversation, Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade said: “Kidnapping of our educators is the worst thing to ever happen in the sector.
“Actions of this nature seek to undermine the hard-earned democratic right to life, in a free country.”
The Department confirmed that the educator's disappearance is being treated as a high-priority case, and a multidisciplinary team has been dispatched to the affected school to offer psychosocial support and counseling to distressed staff and learners.
MEC Gade made a plea to all citizens and authorities to assist in efforts to bring the educator home safely.
“We urge the police and all law enforcement agencies to bring her back as this has left her family, colleagues, and learners of the school in distress.”
Gade also called on the entire Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) Metro to take a stand against criminal elements in their communities.
“We call upon all citizens of the Metro (NMB) to eject these elements in our society through working with the police and Community Policing Forum,” he said.
Police said no ransom demand had been made and the matter was under investigation.
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