Equal Education calls on teachers to be part of effort to save jobs in WC
The Western Cape Education Department announced that over 2,400 teachers would lose their jobs in January next year.
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CAPE TOWN - Education advocacy group, Equal Education, is calling on teachers to be part of the effort to save their jobs in the Western Cape.
This comes after the Civil Society, Teachers, and Unions organised a gathering on Saturday at Community House in Salt River to find a way forward against the looming teacher job cuts in the Western Cape.
The provincial Education Department announced that over 2,400 teachers would lose their jobs in January next year.
Equal Education's Nontsikele Dlulani said teachers had been distancing themselves in the struggle to better schools and education.
"It must only not become part of them when they are affected. But the whole education system when it's affected, it does affect teachers. So, teachers must also start forming solidarity with civil society movements that have been doing this work. The work around budget and austerity is not new within our spaces. This is the work we have been doing over years," said Dlulani.
Meanwhile, a matric learner, Yonela Zembe, who also attended the event, had this to say: "As a learner, I don't have any other way to fight except for my voice. So, I have planned to use my voice to pressurise the authorities to reconsider their decision."