Vacant Teacher Posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.