TMG Digital reports that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has shifted the blame for the teaching jobs-for-cash scandal to district officials in provincial education departments.  

Addressing a media briefing prior to her budget vote in Parliament on Wednesday‚ Motshekga said that evidence at her disposal showed that no evidence pointed to the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) as being linked to the scandal.  But Democratic Alliance (DA) education spokesperson Gavin Davis said Motshekga was being disingenuous and lacked the courage to tackle the powerful union‚ which was blamed for the scandal in an inquiry commissioned by Motshekga’s own department.  "The minister is constrained by the fact that Sadtu is an ally both of the ANC and of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa‚ whom she supports for the ANC leadership‚" said Davis.

• Read this report by Jan-Jan Joubert in full at BusinessLive
• Read too, Motshekga "lacks courage" to reign in Sadtu, claims DA, at News24

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