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Teachers in the Eastern Cape ended a go-slow on Wednesday, February 08, 2012, the provincial education department said.
This came after the department and the teacher union Sadtu reached an agreement on the reinstatement of temporary teachers.
Eastern Cape premier Noxolo Kiviet, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, provincial education MEC Mandla Makhupula and the Sadtu leadership worked into the night on Tuesday to find a solution to the stalemate that crippled education in the province.
The industrial action started when teachers returned to school at the start of the academic year to find their temporary colleagues had been moved to other schools or let go.
They protested the added work-load with a wildcat strike followed by a go-slow.
Provincial government spokesman Mahlubandile Qwase said a memorandum of agreement that would normalise teaching had been signed.
“Sadtu has agreed to end their go slow and pickets that they have embarked on in the past few weeks,” he said.
Sadtu provincial secretary Mncekeleli Ndongeni said the union leaders would meet on Wednesday to convey the decision to branch secretaries.
The education MEC is to release a circular by February 10 reinstating temporary teachers.
The Democratic Alliance said the agreement was a victory for the union and a blow to education.
Edmund van Vuuren from the DA said more than 5500 posts that should have been filled through redeployment would stay vacant until a decision was taken by the relevant stakeholders in the bargaining chamber.
“This means that there will not be a teacher in each and every classroom in the Eastern Cape,” he said. - Sapa
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kat Verster, wrote
SADTU is the downfall of education in SA. SADTU rules education and brakes it down to a pathetic institution.
democrat, wrote
So nearly a month of the very first term has been lost. Permanently employed teachers resented the fact that their workload was heavier since temporary appointees were being relocated or taken out of the system. On one hand SADTU and COSATU rail against temporary contracts; on the other they demand these so as to ease their own workload. And pupils suffer.
Anonymous, wrote
As Temporal Teachers are to be reinstated,I want to know when are they going to be permanent especially those qualified with SACE certificate & were first employed in 2010,then fired on December 2010.Again reinstated on 2011 March,then on December 2011 fired.Are they going to be fired again if there is financial problem within the department?I'm so tired of this type of employment in Eastern Cape Department of Education.I wish them to be 'PERMANNTLY EMPLOYED'
Anonymous, wrote
Why were the temporary teachers not re-employed? When SADTU went on strike last year and refused to budge on their demands, they were warned that the only way to accomodate their demands was by dropping the temporary teachers as there was insufficient budget. As per usual SADTU ignored the warning and then express surprise and indignation when the temporary teachers were not employed thei year. The only way these teachers can be afforded is by government providing more money and that more money will be extracted from us poor tax payers. It really is all moot. There will come a time, soon enough, when there simply isn't any more money and then we will be exactly the same as Zimbabwe, bankrupt.
Andries, wrote
This is why hundreds of thousands of South African youth leave schools with no education, no self-esteem and no prospects. Lazy teachers ruin more lives than crime, corruption, or affirmative action ever could.
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