With Angie Motshekga expected to announce on Thursday when schools will officially reopen, five teacher unions are still at loggerheads with the Basic Education minister.
With Angie Motshekga expected to announce on Thursday when schools will officially reopen, five teacher unions are still at loggerheads with the Basic Education minister.
“We wish to state that for the minister to address the nation before addressing all the areas that are still not compliant will further erode the confidence in the public education system." "The DBE must desist from misleading the public about unions having agreed on everything. We all want to see a smooth reopening of the schools."
“The unions are disturbed by this ‘we are all in this together’, if it means that the DBE is consulting to legitimise its top-down decisions. “The meeting agreed to use the whole of this week to allow the provinces to comply with the non-negotiables. To avoid confusion, we agreed that the schools must be having the essentials such as the PPEs, sanitisers and education support personnel to help the SMTs to prepare to receive the teachers.
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