DispatchLive reports that the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has called on the ANC in the Eastern Cape to convene an urgent meeting to deal with an education crisis in the province.  

This followed the release of damning details contained in a report tabled last Friday before the ruling party’s sub-committee on education.  The report revealed that hundreds of pupils at 16 Eastern Cape schools will return for the new school year to unsafe school structures as the department had failed to replace or renovate the schools as undertaken.  The report also revealed that 15% of required textbooks have not yet been delivered to schools.  A committee meant to determine the number of vacant teaching posts will only meet next Monday, five days after schools reopen.  Sadtu provincial spokesman Sindisile Zamisa said the union had written to the ANC, Cosatu and SACP “for the ruling party to convene an urgent crisis meeting to find a solution to these challenges”.

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