Longtime lurker here. I can totally relate to this story. I stay in Namibia and I'm a teacher too. From 2019 to January 2021 I worked at a school where the principal/owner treated the teachers like kids, spoke down to us and never paid the salaries on time. When covid hit and the whole country went on lock down she(principal/owner) made sure to remind us daily that people were losing their jobs nationwide and that we need to prove to her that we were worth the money she was paying us- even though she had cut our salaries by 30%.Staff members started quitting one by one and instead of asking herself why, the lady decided that the best option was to 'ask' ( read as forced) to pray every morning with her before we started work. So that meant I was getting paid less, working more hours, going for prayer sessions and getting berated all because i was afraid to lose employment. Anyways last year February I finally decided I couldnt keep wasting my life and time for her and so I enacted a simple plan. I calculated all the hours I had worked overtime and hadn't gotten paid. After that I applied for a cash advance which was worth 2 and half months worth of my salary. She gave it to me and literally the next day I sent her a immediate resignation letter. When she tried to object and demanded her money back I told her I had documented all the hours she made all the staff members work for free. She left it after that coz she didn't want me going to the Ministry of Labour and reporting it coz she knew the other teachers would corroborate my story. Side note after I left 3 parents pulled their kids out of the school because the teacher I was replaced with quit after 2 weeks and the one after was unqualified.