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TimesLive reports that the education of thousands of Mpumalanga schoolchildren has ground to a near halt and exams have been postponed because of a teachers' go-slow.
For the past three weeks, teachers in the province have been coming to work for only two hours a day. Schools open at 8am and close at 10am. The protest is over the freezing of teaching posts. More than 24,000 members of the SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) have said they will not return to full-time teaching until the education department's moratorium on filling posts is lifted. A meeting on Friday between representatives of labour federation Cosatu and Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza failed to find a solution. Information on vacant posts, how many would be filled and when was apparently going to be presented to organised labour on Monday.
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