Union threatens chaos during midyear exams if the ruling party doesn’t accede to its wishes.
Teachers joining a planned Sadtu protest march will face disciplinary procedures, says the basic education department.
Sadtu’s protest over marker payments is just the labour facet of a far wider political battle.
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has threatened protests in North West if the provincial education minister Louisa Mabe does not resign.
If Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has her way, public school teachers will wear business suits and ties.
Teachers vow to fight minister’s plan to bring back ‘destructive’ and ‘autocratic’ school inspectors.
Unions say she is interfering in the business of the basic education department and must back off.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has intensified its industrial campaign targeting basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan.
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An interdict halting the closure of 17 schools in the Western Cape was a "loss of opportunity" for learners, provincial education minister has said.
Teacher unions have told the Mail & Guardian they will oppose the return of school inspectors, as proposed by President Jacob Zuma.
Though the union’s priority is teachers’ working conditions, it cannot ignore wider issues.
Some union-affiliated teachers use their positions as stepping stones to lucrative political jobs.
A flawed funding model results in poor schools reducing the number of subjects they offer and enduring larger class sizes than richer schools.
Sadtu members in Limpopo released a scathing statement this week signed by its secretary, Matome Raphasha, and his deputy, Sowell Tjebane.
Cosas has warned teachers aligned to Sadtu in Ekurhuleni they will be barred from returning to school if they embark on an intended march in the area.
Criminal charges have been laid against a Sadtu official accused of trying to run over DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko with a car.
Sadtu’s call to members to examine their role in delivering education is a sea change in attitude.
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.
Although opposition parties criticised President Jacob Zuma’s acceptance of education and employment statistics, they were less scathing this year.
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.
Cosatu has been mediating between teachers and the Eastern Cape education department to end the go-slow at schools over poor working conditions.
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/ 24 January 2012
Sadtu says calls for teaching to be made an essential service and de-unionised is naïve and shows little understanding of inequalities in education.
Various organisations are investigating the legal basis on which new regulations can be challenged.
The blame game over who is responsible for Limpopo schools’ textbook shortage continues, as the province locks horns with national government.
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/ 19 January 2012
Sadtu are threatening protests in the Eastern Cape because of teachers’ complaints about long hours and poor working conditions.
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.
The new curriculum and assessment policy (Caps) will enable teachers to spend more time in the classroom.
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/ 2 December 2011
Sadtu have threatened to protest if the Eastern Cape education department goes ahead with its plan to dismiss 4 200 temporary teachers.
Thobile Ntola, the president of Sadtu, criticised the info Bill publicly without debating it within the teachers’ union, leaders say.
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/ 28 November 2011
Teachers’ union Sadtu has warned that teachers are becoming increasingly frustrated by the haphazard implementation of curriculum changes.
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/ 15 November 2011
About 53 000 Eastern Cape teachers have moved closer to striking as their union talks tough, setting Friday as the deadline for government to respond.