Concerned parents, teachers, pupils and civil society organisations gathered to discuss the impact of over 2,000 teaching posts being cut come January next year.
CAPE TOWN - With 2,400 teaching posts set to be abolished in the Western Cape, the MEC for Education is appealing to teachers not to go on strike.National budget cuts have caused a shortfall of almost R4-billion, so contract teaching posts will not be renewed at the end of the year. And some permanently employed teachers are being moved to schools where there is a greater need.
They say the pupil-teacher ratio is already too high, with some schools having to deal with 50 and more pupils in a class.
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