DispatchLive reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) on Tuesday agreed to a high court order obliging it to cooperate with the Eastern Cape education department’s teacher staffing decisions for schools for the next three years.  

The union also agreed to the high court declaring the union’s directive in April to its members not to participate in the process of identifying excess teachers as an unlawful breach of the constitutional rights of learners to an education.  The far-reaching order included an interdict prohibiting the union from interfering in any way with the department’s determination of teacher post establishments at public schools or redeployment or transfer of teachers.  With Sadtu caving on almost every issue, the department may now finally set about transferring about 4,200 teachers from schools where they are not needed to schools suffering desperate teacher shortages.

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