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    Education department has 20 days to appoint four Mary Waters teachers

    Joy HinyikiwileBy Joy HinyikiwileJune 28, 2022Updated:July 1, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Mary Waters Secondary School learners arrive at school earlier this year. Photo: Rod Amner

    By JOY HINYIKIWILE

    The Eastern Cape Department of Education has been given until 13 July to temporarily appoint four new teachers at Mary Waters Secondary School after the school, represented by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), made an urgent court application to the Makhanda High Court.

    The school reported a loss of 124 teaching periods a week since the start of the year due to teacher shortages. It says the department short-changed it by several teacher posts for its 2022 post provisioning.

    Angry parents have staged various protests against the shortages over the past few years.

    On 23 June, Makhanda High Court Judge Nomtamsanqa Beshe gave the department 20 days to appoint the teachers. Beshe also ordered the department to confirm the appointment of two temporary teachers who have been teaching at the school since the start of the year and have not received their salaries. She gave the department until 30 June to back-pay the teachers from January.

    The department must also appoint two Post-Level 1 teachers who can teach Mathematics, Technology and Creative Arts in Afrikaans and English. The school wants the teachers to be permanently employed.

    The school also wants the department head and deputy principal posts filled.

    It awaits an outcome of an application to review and set aside the department’s 2023 post provisioning, which has allocated the school 30 teachers. The school has said the department’s post establishment does not consider it a dual medium school when allocating posts.

    According to a 27 June Daily Dispatch report, acting Education Department head Mahlubandile Qwase denied in court papers that the department got the post provisioning formula wrong but acknowledged that the post provisioning had to be weighted for dual-medium schools.

    He agreed to have the department commission curriculum advisers assist the school in making a catch-up plan for the lost work. Beshe also made this an order of the court.

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