Eleventh hour appeal to save thousands of Eastern Cape teaching posts

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape says it will make an eleventh hour appeal today to Education MEC Mandla Makupula to negotiate a bailout package that would save 11-thousand teaching jobs.

Its been widely reported that a funding crisis could see that many jobs being cut from the 2013 post establishments due to be announced by MEC Makupula on Friday in compliance with a court order.

DA education spokesperson, Edmund van Vuuren, says he wants to urge the MEC to urgently appeal to National Treasury to make funds available to save those posts.

He says he will urge Makupula to commit to bailout negotiations with Treasury to avoid chaos in Eastern Cape schools in 2013 as they battle over who gets to keep their teachers.

"I will be confronting the MEC as to what is going to happen pertaining to a possible cut in the number of teachers. The MEC must be very straight with us whether there is going to be a cut or not because at this moment the department does not have the funds to employ 64 750 new teachers" van Vuuren said.