A Free State educational official who has done no work for the past seven years has written to President Jacob Zuma to help stop her "forced" idling, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Thursday.

Maryna Jacobs (37) a senior bookkeeper with 18 years of service, wrote to Zuma that she had been relieved of her duties.

Every day she sits and read the newspaper because no manager speaks to her, the report said.

"It is fun to do nothing for a while. But this has been going on for seven years. It is unacceptable," the report quoted from her letter.

On one of the few occasions that she was given a task, she was ordered to move the furniture of a deputy director. She refused.

Sometimes she played hand soccer in the office that did the purchasing of schoolbooks. Sometimes she drove for an hour in her bakkie through the streets to get rid of her frustration.

She mentioned in the letter that she has a charge of assault against her, but said this was due to frustration.

Jacobs now asks Zuma to reinstate her in the position that she was supposed to be in or transfer her to an institution where she could be useful.

She said since she had pointed out tender fraud to the anti-corruption unit, she was being ignored. According to her, she was not prepared to be an accessory to the fraud.

"They want me to resign but I refuse to. Otherwise they have to offer me a severance package but they don't want to do that."

Jacobs told the newspaper the only person who could help her now, was Zuma.

"They are making matters so difficult and uncomfortable so that I have to resign," she was quoted in the report.

The report indicates that Jacobs directed her letter to Zuma, as well as to the office of the Free State premier, Ace Magashule, and the MEC for education, Tate Makgoe.