Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga must resign with immediate effect, says the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.
Sadtu kicked off its industrial campaign to have department of basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan sacked from his position.
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The debate around making teaching an essential service intensified as the ANC reaffirmed its stance on the move seen as an attempt to prevent strikes.
An interdict halting the closure of 17 schools in the Western Cape was a "loss of opportunity" for learners, provincial education minister has said.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has indicated that knives would soon be out for department of basic education’s Bobby Soobrayan.
Though the union’s priority is teachers’ working conditions, it cannot ignore wider issues.
Limpopo teachers who taught the Grade 10 catch-up programme during September have not been paid, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union said.
Some union-affiliated teachers use their positions as stepping stones to lucrative political jobs.
The teachers’ union claims their agenda is political and their links will be exposed.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has stated that teachers must be on time, on task, thoroughly prepared and behave professionally.
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.
Teachers will not be able to implement Caps, the new curriculum, in two provinces due to a lack of training.
Sadtu members in Limpopo released a scathing statement this week signed by its secretary, Matome Raphasha, and his deputy, Sowell Tjebane.
A disgruntled teacher in the Eastern Cape has apparently tried to run over Lindiwe Mazibuko with her car for "wasting" children’s time.
Teachers are marching with Cosatu, but their pupils must be in class tomorrow. Except maybe in Cape Town, where children have been invited to join in.
Cosatu has called on teachers to lead a strike its members will hold in a month’s time against labour brokers and proposed toll roads in Gauteng.
The Eastern Cape’s education department has had to ask the province’s treasury for a R15-million bailout to settle salaries stilled owed to teachers.
Sadtu says it will withdraw from key Mpumalanga
forums if its demands are not met.
Jacob Zuma’s R2.4-billion loan to Swaziland has unwittingly strengthened the hand of unions, says <b>Rapule Tabane</b>.
As the country reels from twin strikes by the metal and chemical worker unions, a further strike is looming by nearly a million members of Cosatu.
Another week, another education study that suggests how the country’s largest teacher union cripples the wellbeing of South Africa’s learners.
Violence, racism and ill-discipline seem to be the new subjects taught in schools.
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/ 1 December 2010
The KwaZulu-Natal branch of the Sadtu has called on "biased marking" in favour of black matriculants, the <em>Sowetan</em> reported.
The president of Sadtu has faced weeks of conflict, violence and condemnation, but remains committed to furthering working-class interests.
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/ 11 October 2010
The DA on Monday renewed its call for teaching to be declared an essential service and urged teachers belonging to Sadtu to resign from the union.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi this week warned that there is ‘no hope and no future’ for many of South Africa’s learners.
Government is sweeping under the carpet the core reasons for dysfunctional schooling.
A teachers’ union congress dissolved into near chaos on Thursday when ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe addressed delegates.
With such little time left I have serious reservations that we will finish the syllabus. Even if we try to, it would be a rushed process’
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/ 2 September 2010
The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.