Discussion | Education budget cuts threaten 3600 teacher posts in Gauteng

South Africa, Durban. Seafront.
File: Duduzane Zuma, the son of former South African President Jacob Zuma, arrives ahead of his dad’s corruption trial at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on May 26, 2021.
PRETORIA – Provincial education budgets are shrinking across the country.
It’s expected, that thousands of teaching posts will soon be cut.
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In Gauteng alone, an estimated three-thousand 600 teacher posts are at stake.
 The National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA’s Basil Manuel spoke to eNCA.