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The Eastern Cape Education Department has falsely advertised the availability of 3 650 teaching posts. The Department actually intends to cut 3 932 teachers from the system in 2013.<\/p>\n
The false information was published in a Departmental bulletin issued on 30 September.<\/p>\n
MEC Mandla Makhupula has already conceded that the Department has no intention of filling the 3 650 posts advertised. He was responding to DA questions in the legislature\u2019s education committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The DA calls on MEC Makhupula to immediately withdraw the advert. The MEC must also issue a public apology and a full account of the Department\u2019s real intentions for the number of teaching posts in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n
There are currently 64 752 teaching posts declared for 2012. For 2013, the official post declaration by the MEC stands at just 60 820 due to a funding shortfall.<\/p>\n
The advert seems to have been an attempt by the Department to create the impression that it is complying with a high court order to fill all teaching posts for 2012.<\/p>\n
The Department revealed in Tuesday\u2019s committee that is currently back in court seeking a variation order allowing it to not comply with the court\u2019s original ruling.<\/p>\n
This is a clear-cut case of criminal and unethical conduct by the Department to publish false information about available posts.<\/p>\n
The hopes of thousands of potential teachers have been unnecessarily raised.<\/p>\n
Besides this, the intended cutting of nearly 4 000 posts will not only affect the individual teachers, but their families as well. This approach is likely to worsen the exodus of teachers to other provinces.<\/p>\n
The DA\u2019s position is that not a single teacher should lose their job. The principle must be that children can\u2019t suffer from this crisis.<\/p>\n
The DA will lead a march of concerned citizens to the Education Department headquarters in Zwelitsha tomorrow. We will deliver a memorandum of demands aimed at saving our teachers.<\/p>\n
Edmund van Vuuren, MPL<\/strong><\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Eastern Cape Education Department has falsely advertised the availability of 3 650 teaching posts. The Department actually intends to cut 3 932 teachers from the system in 2013. The false information was published in a Departmental bulletin issued on 30 September. MEC Mandla Makhupula has already conceded that the Department has no intention of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-16535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}