PARENTS and pupils have threatened "action" if three Esiqiwini High School teachers in northern Zululand, who have allegedly been involved in sexual relationships with pupils, are not expelled.

Earlier this month four teachers at Mahlontebe Secondary School in Limpopo were temporarily removed from the school after pupils accused them of sexually abusing female pupils.

This happened after a Grade 11 pupil allegedly damaged one of the teachers' vehicle, accusing him of cheating.

The small Mtubatuba community in northern Zululand has been trying to get the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education to investigate the sex allegations since 2009.

Their frustration grew last year when a teacher admitted that he had fathered a baby of a matric pupil.

The teacher is said to have paid "damages" to the girl's parents after admitting responsibility.

This was after a local social crime prevention organisation in the area investigated and found that the allegations were true.

"At the time we called a meeting with the school governing body and the implicated teachers promised to stop. But it appears one of them did not stop until he impregnated the pupil last year," the organisation's chairman Senzo Mkhwanazi said.

The school's governing body chairman Eliazah Ntshangase confirmed that a pupil was currently raising a child fathered by a teacher.

He warned that parents and pupils were "angry" and "fed-up" about the situation.

"It is really bad and if nothing is done it might get out of hand."

KwaZulu-Natal Education departmental spokesman Sihle Mlotshwa said the department was aware of the allegations.

"The district has asked the said teacher to make a statement and a decision will be taken as informed by the facts presented to the district," he said.