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IOL News reports that Department of Basic Education (DBE) Minister Siviwe Gwarube has intervened to resolve the crisis that teacher assistants had not been paid for months.
On Wednesday, Gwarube, alongside Department of Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Jomo Sibiya, jointly addressed the media over non-payment of stipends of education assistants. She indicated that this was due to the failure of officials who were responsible for verifying the attendance registers of thousands of teacher assistants at schools. "Today, I can confirm that as of 10 am this morning, payments have started flowing from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to our education assistants. This brings a massive relief to thousands of young people who have been waiting for what is due to them. This delay should have never happened, and we will work tirelessly to ensure that it is avoided in the future," Gwarube stated. This failure led to more than 150,000 assistants at schools around the country not receiving their salaries for months. The assistants, mostly young people, were recently recruited by the DBE under its employment initiative.
Gwarube went on to explain: After internal investigation, I have been informed that the captured attendance registers were not uploaded in full by the relevant deadline. This has led to the funder, namely the UIF [Unemployment Insurance Fund], being unable to approve the release of the stipend funds. When the system failed, contingency plans were not activated by responsible departmental officials."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Siyabonga Sithole at IOL News
- Lees ook, Skoolassistente weer betaal ná Gwarube ingryp, by Maroela Media
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