Stern warning to Eastern Cape school principals who do not toe the line

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 The Eastern Cape education department has issued a stern warning to principals who have willfully ignored instructions to identify excess teachers in their schools for redeployment to other schools where there are teacher shortages.

Education MEC, Mandla Makupula, says charges are being formulated against them.

"The Department has already, from the beginning of the year, re-appointed 2 187 temporary teachers. These teachers are already in the system. This step was meant to enable and take place simultaneously with the movement of the 6 781 teachers who are additional to establishment of some of our schools in the province" he said.

Makupula said "it has been extremely disappointing to note the extent of tardiness and downright obstruction of this process in the majority of our schools. It is unacceptable that principals and school management teams have, to date, willfully ignored a direct instruction from the Department, and that, only 1974 teachers have been identified out of 6 781."

"This amounts to insubordination and dereliction of duty. The acting HoD has issued instruction to our labour section to commence the process of identifying and preparing charges against all those deemed to be willfully ignoring direct instructions," he warned.