Zingisa Msengi, the deputy principal at Dangwana Senior Secondary School in Mount Frere, Eastern Cape, has been sitting at home for six years and raked in over a million rand in monthly salaries that also included annual increments.

Msengi, 50, said he had a fallout with the principal and some of the teachers at the school after there were allegations that he sexually harassed an educator, tried to court a pupil, did not accept the employment of the new principal and also did not mark grade 12 mathematics scripts in June 2015...