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Angie fails the test for accountability

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Jan 2015

Government remains mute about missing results and the Eastern Cape's teacher debacle.

Eastern Cape ‘cannot pay’ teachers

Article bogdan TagDiv - 12 Dec 2014

But the department’s excuse is untenable in law and fact, says the Legal Resource Centre.

A lesson in shifting the teacher vacancies blame

Article bogdan TagDiv - 31 Oct 2014

Court action is to blame for teacher vacancies, says the Eastern Cape education department.

If Motshekga doesn’t pay up she could be taking the bus home

Analysis bogdan TagDiv - 8 Oct 2014

Cars from the minister’s office have been attached to ensure the education department coughs up the R28-million it owes in teacher salaries.

Schools unite to fix salary snarl-ups

Article bogdan TagDiv - 13 Jun 2014

Ninety Eastern Cape schools are demanding the education department reimburse them for the R81m in teacher salaries they have had to pay.

Pupils who ‘stood up for their rights’

Article Lucas Siphelo Ndabeni & Kedebone Legoale - 23 May 2014

For Khayelitsha learners, their recent protests against deprivation became a story of hope.

In Queen’s Mercy, pupils pull back from the brink

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Apr 2014

Equal Education activists help rural Eastern Cape school to find its voice and stand up for the right to education.

Open letter: Unpaid teachers plead for salaries

Article Danika Swanepoel - 24 May 2013

An open letter to Mthunywa Ngonzo, Eastern Cape education’s superintendent general.

Schools hit by sick bureaucracy

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 May 2013

For 10 years the Eastern Cape has failed to deal adequately with sick teachers and vacant posts.

Uphill battle to fill teaching niche

Article bogdan TagDiv - 6 May 2013

A young teacher’s school desperately needs him but he’s working without pay while an official sits on the paperwork for the job.

Motshekga taken back to court over EC teachers shortage

Article Sapa - 6 Mar 2013

The Centre for Child Law is taking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga back to court over the shortage of teachers in the Eastern Cape.

Basic education department ordered to fill vacant Eastern Cape teaching posts

Article bogdan TagDiv - 3 Aug 2012

The Grahamstown High Court has ordered the department of basic education to fill vacant posts in Eastern Cape public schools by November.

Eastern Cape schools win deal to fill teacher posts

Article bogdan TagDiv - 27 Jul 2012

But the education department is digging in its heels over the appointment of non-teaching staff.

Vacant teacher posts case ‘not urgent’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 13 Jul 2012

NGOs baffled by education department's delay tactics in 18-month-old saga.

Motshekga to oppose court action over E Cape vacancies

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Jun 2012

Angie Motshekga will oppose court action taken by Eastern Cape governing bodies over the failure to fill 64 752 teaching posts budgeted for this year.

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