The South African Democratic Students Movement calls on the Departments of Basic Education to fulfil the promises it made earlier this year when it claimed it would fix the mess created in the Eastern Cape Provincial Education Department which has disrupted learning in the province.
We are shocked that a couple of months after the proposed intervention we have not heard any positive feedback from the department with regard to this matter. The promised filling of 4000 vacant teaching posts which are a result of corruption and maladministration is still on the pipelines yet learners are only a couple of weeks away from their final examinations. This is a situation that does not only compromise the learners but it also further makes us doubt whether the Department of Basic Education has what it takes to turn around the misfortunes of Basic Education in South Africa.
We also call on the Department to closely monitor the performance of provincial education departments in an effort to root out corruption pertaining the hiring of ghost teachers, the corruption associated with principals who inflate the number of learners in schools in order to receive a bigger budget for feeding schemes, learning material and other things.
