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KZN Education Department rejects maggot-infested food claims, again By Sne Masuku Share DURBAN - THE Department of Education has yet again rejected allegations that pupils at Inanda’s Eziphembeleni Secondary School were served rotten food with maggots, but the findings were again not accepted by the whistle-blowers who said they had put their jobs on the line to expose this. Education spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi said the whistle-blower, Educators Union of SA (EUSA) president Scelo Bhengu, w...

The Educators Union of South Africa suggested that the department deployed properly trained and armed police reservists, sourced from the community

Teacher unions and activists have expressed concern on the new directions by the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to allow all primary school learners to start attending school daily from July.

The whistle-blowers on the food allegedly containing maggots and being served to pupils at Eziphembeleni High School as part of the National Schools Nutrition Programme were disappointed with the manner in which the investigation was conducted

A Free State school pupil succumbed to Covid-19-related complications on Tuesday. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/Pay less images An increase in Covid-19 infections at schools in the Free State has claimed the life of an 18-year-old pupil in Welkom. Provincial education department spokesperson Howard Ndaba said the matric pupil was one of 11 confirmed Covid-19 cases at Lephola Secondary School in Thabong. Other pupils were still awaiting their test results. The teen tested positive...

Unions call for schools in South Africa to close as third Covid-19 wave hits Subscribe The Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) has called for the closure of schools across the country over concerns around rising Covid-19 cases. With Gauteng, the Free State and the Eastern Cape having declared that they are in a third wave – the whole country will follow soon, the union said. The union claimed that schools are central to this resurgence as safety protocols have been ignored. EUSA blamed the...

Calls for learner rotation system to stay in place Share Cape Town - The Educators Union of SA (Eusa) has called for the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to permanently adopt an adjusted learner rotation system and reject suggestions to return classrooms to full capacity. Union spokesperson Kabelo Mahlobogwane said the proposal was necessary, as the country was still under lockdown. He said it showed that the danger of death and infections was still present, and with new cases of the Indian ...

Unions felt the department was not treating the filling of teacher posts as a priority

The terms and conditions of employment under the Employment of Educators Act address conditions of re-employment if a teacher is dismissed for an act of misconduct.  The newly published conditions address if and when a teacher can be re-employed following a case of misconduct and the applicable mandatory period of prevention of re-employment.  Gazetted by the ministry of basic education on 9 April and signed by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, the terms and conditions now state ho...

By Staff Reporter SCHOOL teachers in Bulawayo have launched a new union claiming the existing ones were no longer serving the educators’ best interests. The new union, Educators Union of Zimbabwe (EUZ) was formed by some disgruntled teachers who accuse colleagues within existing unions of abandoning their mandate and dabbling in national politics. The new teachers’ group also accuses the unions of using the plight of suffering teachers to advance political ambitions. They further say that s...