Daily News reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has embarked on indefinite pickets outside the KwaZulu-Natal education department’s district offices, demanding the urgent filling of teacher posts around the province.  

The pickets will take place at lunchtime and will be attended only by union leaders from the different schools.  The first picket took place outside the Pinetown district offices of the department on Monday, where about 50 leaders of the Sadtu eThekwini North region sang and held up posters for about an hour from noon.  The union will embark on a provincial picket in Pietermaritzburg and a national picket in Pretoria on 13 and 27 May respectively.  The KZN department of basic education said it would meet with the union this week to discuss solutions.

• Read this report by Sihle Mlambo in full at Daily News
• See too, End overcrowding in schools, says Sadtu, at News24

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