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It’s a waiting game for 2023 matric results within a seriously challenged education system

Angie fails the test for accountability

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

let us also focus on the teachers who stay up past midnight marking, who sacrifice weekends for extra lessons and who quietly absorb the stress so their learners don’t have to.

Eastern Cape ‘cannot pay’ teachers

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

A lesson in shifting the teacher vacancies blame

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

Money is an impediment but so too is the lack of political will, accountability and quality teacher training and support

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

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

Extended recess: Classrooms remain empty as Eastern Cape schools fail to retain their teachers due to a lack of funding form the department.

Schools unite to fix salary snarl-ups

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’

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

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

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

There are more than 2 000 temporary teachers in the Eastern Cape – many of who go unpaid for months.

Open letter: Unpaid teachers plead for salaries

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

Schools hit by sick bureaucracy

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

Uphill battle to fill teaching niche

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

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

Angie Motshekga says that President Jacob Zuma’s comments on women ‘should not be a reflection of how he treats women’.

Basic education department ordered to fill vacant Eastern Cape teaching posts

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

Many schools in the Eastern Cape lack basic infrastructure.

Eastern Cape schools win deal to fill teacher posts

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

Parents of pupils several schools in the Eastern Cape have dipped into their own pockets to pay for temporary teachers.

Vacant teacher posts case ‘not urgent’

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

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga.

Motshekga to oppose court action over E Cape vacancies

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.