News24 reports that KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) education department officials at circuit and district level, along with management staff at a Pinetown school, will face the music after failing to sort out the issue of Grade 1 pupils being without a teacher since May.  

Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu said it was revealed to him during a meeting with department management, the school governing board and the principal of Shayamoya Primary School, that 19 Grade 1 pupils had been without a teacher since 1 May 2019.  Mshengu had convened the meeting to address several challenges faced by the school.  He indicated that the revelation bordered on the infringement of pupils' constitutional right to access basic education and confirmed in a statement on Sunday that “harsh action will be taken against those who dropped the ball."  

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sesona Ngqakamba at News24

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