Teachers Strike

This week’s teachers march in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro has drawn the biggest turnout since the wave of protests during the Confederations Cup in June.

Schoolteachers have protested against government rejecting a 20% pay demand.

Classrooms stood empty as Sadtu members took to the streets calling for Angie Motshekga and Bobby Soobrayan to step down immediately.

We chat to our education reporters about the ANC’s announcement to make education an essential service: what does this mean and will it have any real effect?

Doing things oneself is imperative in the knowledge-based economy.

Sadtu’s call to members to examine their role in delivering education is a sea change in attitude.

Eastern Cape matrics are safe from a teachers’ strike for now but tensions remain high as Sadtu takes the department of education to court.

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.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union could not guarantee that a strike by 53 000 teachers would not disrupt matric exams.

The department of basic education is scrambling to avert a possible strike by 53 000 teachers — in the middle of the matric exams.

A row between Sadtu and the DA is brewing over a Bill that seeks to limit the striking rights of teachers.

The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.

As pupils taught their peers in the absence of striking teachers, the basic education department claimed it would support schools during the strike.

More than 6 000 teachers in the Johannesburg region resolved to suspend the four-week-long ”chalks-down” strike.