The New Age reports that scores of teachers from across Mpumalanga affiliated to the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) will be temporarily downing tools and taking to the streets of Mbombela on Thursday.  

They will be picketing at the headquarters of the provincial department of education to hand over a memorandum of grievances to education MEC Reginah Mhaule.  The union will be protesting because the department apparently intends to cut the number of teaching posts in the province from the current 32,637 to 31,206 “thereby butchering more than 1,400 needed teaching posts.”  Sadtu reckons that scores of temporary teachers will be jobless in January 2017.

• Read this report by France Nyaka in full on page 23 of The New Age of 28 September 2016
• Read an extended summary of the report at SA Labour News

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