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/ 11 November 2011
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union could not guarantee that a strike by 53 000 teachers would not disrupt matric exams.
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/ 9 November 2011
The department of basic education is scrambling to avert a possible strike by 53 000 teachers — in the middle of the matric exams.
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/ 18 October 2011
A row between Sadtu and the DA is brewing over a Bill that seeks to limit the striking rights of teachers.
A teachers’ union now says it ‘will allow’ a court hearing of the principal accused of assault.
The solution to the South African education system’s ills lies in more effective state policies.
The SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) is concerned at teachers bunking school to attend court cases involving Sadtu members.
The SA Democratic Teachers’ Union on Friday called for Gauteng education minister Barbara Creecy to step down because she "hates black people".
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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.
Public-sector unions have accepted the government’s wage offer, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union confirmed on Tuesday evening.
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/ 10 October 2010
The SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has confirmed it is rejecting the government’s wage offer, a union official said on Sunday.
The congress of Cosatu’s teachers’ union, Sadtu, broke down in pandemonium on Thursday after delegates booed and heckled the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe.
A teachers’ union congress dissolved into near chaos on Thursday when ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe addressed delegates.
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/ 22 September 2010
A warrant of arrest has been issued for leaders of the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) in Gauteng for holding a meeting during school hours.
About 60,7% of matrics passed the 2009 exams — just less than 2% down from 2008, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday.
The choice of Mugwena Maluleke as the new general secretary of Sadtu is widely interpreted as a move to redeem the union’s battered credibility.
The DA has called on government to break the ”stranglehold” it says Sadtu has on public school education.
Disruptions at Soweto schools ended on Wednesday after a pact was reached between provincial education minister Barbara Creecy and Sadtu.
KwaZulu-Natal teachers are taking leave to campaign for the African National Congress, the Congress of the People claimed on Monday.
SADTU in Gauteng Central is defying calls by education minister Naledi Pandor and ANC to refrain from holding political meetings during school hours.
The Department of Education has said that all 2008 National Senior Certificate candidates will have their results before schools reopen.
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/ 30 December 2008
The drop in the matric pass rate from 65% last year to 62,5% is cause for concern, says the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu).
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/ 22 October 2008
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) elected Thobile Ntola as president in Pretoria on Wednesday, the union said.
Thabo Mohlala challenges Sadtu boss Thulas Nxesi on perceptions that the union shields its members at the expense of education.
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/ 4 September 2008
Can the Eastern Cape’s new Education Minister, Mahlubandile Qwase, ease the province’s chronic educational woes before next year’s election?
Britain’s MI5 and the United States’s CIA are the masters of the Scorpions, a public hearing into their dissolution heard in Durban on Tuesday.
Ousted trade-union boss Willie Madisha came out firing at his detractors on Wednesday, saying he had been victimised by ”political imbeciles”.
Willie Madisha has been removed as president of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), Sadtu’s Jon Lewis said on Tuesday.
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union on Thursday rejected the proposed public-service annual increase of 10,5%.
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/ 27 January 2008
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Sunday that the death of Don Pasquallie (41), the union’s deputy general-secretary, was a ”profound loss” to the organisation. Pasquallie died in a car accident in Napier, near Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, at about 6am on Sunday morning.
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/ 27 January 2008
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Sunday that the death of Don Pasquallie (41), the union’s deputy general-secretary, was a ”profound loss” to the organisation. Pasquallie died in a car accident in Napier, near Bredasdorp in the Western Cape, at about 6am on Sunday morning.
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/ 15 January 2008
Parents, teachers and pupils staged a protest on Tuesday against the admission policy of the Kismet Combined Secondary school in Colridge near Vryburg in the North West. South African Democratic Teachers’ Union secretary Joe Molipa said the school had increased its fees by 37% in order to deny poor pupils enrolment.
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/ 8 November 2007
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) interest in the African National Congress’s (ANC) national conference is influenced by the will to retain an ANC bias towards the workers of the country. This is according to Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi, who was speaking at the general council of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.