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Groundup reports that Eastern Cape schools have started the year short of teachers, and there seems to be no imminent solution.
After recording a matric pass rate of just over 8% in 2016, Mhlanganisweni Technical and Commercial High School in Libode near Port St Johns has started 2017 short of four teachers. And there is no sign that the Eastern Cape Department of Education will fix the problem any time soon. SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) Eastern Cape spokesperson Sindisile Zamisa confirmed that the shortage of teachers was a crisis in a number of schools in the Eastern Cape. He indicated that Sadtu had written to the ANC, Cosatu, SACP and the chairperson of the portfolio committee on education in the Eastern Cape government to request an urgent education crisis meeting.
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