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GroundUp reports that schooling was disrupted on Thursday in Thabo Mofutsanaya District Municipality, Free State, when hundreds of SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) members took to the streets.
The union was demanding that Lindiwe Mabaso, the district director, should resign as their relationship had broken down irreparably. They claimed that a litany of grievances raised in 2022 had not been addressed. The union’s seven-page memorandum took aim at officials of the department, alleging poor management, a “lack of leadership” and a dysfunctional human resources department. The union also alleged that Sadtu principals were targeted and “union bashing persists”.
Bricks Moloi, Sadtu provincial secretary, said there were currently 70 vacant posts. He went on to claim: “The working conditions in which our members are working are not healthy. In some schools you find that there is no water and they have to use dirty toilets … But when you go to the district office you find that they knock off at 10am because they don’t have water, yet we have to work under the same conditions.” Tsoarelo Malakoane, the provincial head of department, received the memorandum on behalf of the MEC.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tladi Moloi at GroundUp
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