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The Star reports that official data shows that the number of teachers employed at public schools in Limpopo has inexplicably declined over the past decade.
While the government’s post-provisioning model dictated that a province that loses learners automatically sees a decline in teacher numbers, it was the opposite in Limpopo. As the number of learners increased marginally, the number of teachers in the province declined between 2010 and 2019. The number of learners in Limpopo grew from 1,660,700 in 2010 to 1,687,376 last year, but the number of teachers in the province fell by 5,076. The province’s education department employed 55,992 teachers in 2010, and just 50,916 in 2019. The Limpopo education department disputed the national department’s figures, which were given to Parliament last week, saying it employed 836 more teachers than the data indicated. The national department’s 2019 report showed that the majority of provinces saw an increase in the number of teachers since 2010, except Limpopo, Free State and the Eastern Cape. Free State’s decline from 23,016 to 22,978, representing a loss of 38 teachers, was not significant. The Eastern Cape’s loss of 6,164 teachers correlated with its massive drop in learner numbers. That province had 60,462 teachers last year.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Bongani Nkosi at The Star
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