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Sowetan reports that 64-year-old Tshidiso Phofu, from Sebokeng in the Vaal, is just weeks away from retirement, but has nothing to show for all his years as an adult literacy teacher.
He is one of dozens of Adult Basic Education and Training (Abet) teachers who have worked for many years as contract workers without allowances and pension benefits. Phofu is taking part in a strike, which has entered its third week, by adult literacy teachers who are demanding to be employed permanently. The strike is part of a national strike by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) that has affected more than 230 colleges. Teachers protested outside Modulaqhuwa Primary School, in Sebokeng, which has been converted into an Abet learning centre. The protesting teachers said they wanted the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to address their issues before they were prepared to resume classes. As the teachers sang protest songs outside the school, 79-year old Jonas Mokoena cut a forlorn figure sitting outside the gate. Mokoena, a level 1, equivalent to grade 1-3, just wants to continue with his studies which were cut short by the protests. He only leant how to write his name just a year ago.
- Read the full original of Promise Marupeng’s report on this story on page 2 of Sowetan of 27 February 2019
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