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Cape Argus reports that Enver Surty, Deputy Minister of Basic Education, was due on Monday to address hundreds of SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) members about concerns over violence in schools and placement of learners.
The mass meeting was expected to be attended by teachers from across the Western Cape. The call for the meeting followed ongoing violence nationally and a failure by the department to deal with overcrowding in government schools, especially in the Western Cape. According to the union, the government had dismally failed to address those two major issues, which has created animosity between parents, teachers and pupils. Several incidents on school premises among pupils and between teachers and pupils have been reported recently. In one disturbing incident this year, a 16-year-old pupil at the Mpheko Primary School in Peddie in the Eastern Cape was stabbed to death by a fellow pupil. In another incident last year, two Lenasia Secondary School pupils were suspended after a video of one of them assaulting a teacher went viral on social media. On Sunday, Sadtu regional secretary Jonovan Rustin indicated that the union was concerned about the ongoing violence and the overcrowding in township schools.
- Read the original of Mpumi Kiva’s report on this story in full at Cape Argus
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