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Teachers

DBE ‘concerned’ about growing number of teachers fired for gross misconduct

By Veronica Mokhoali

A report by the South African Council of Educators has found at least 11 teachers have been let go after they were found guilty of a range of charges.

  • Principal Nkasana Matlapu from the S.J van der Merwe Technical School in Limpopo. Picture: Supplied.

    Top teachers honoured for excellence amid COVID at awards

    The Annual National Teaching Awards event in Kempton Park on Wednesday was attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa where teachers were praised for helping children despite facing their own challenges amid the pandemic.

    268 days ago
  • Ramaphosa to teachers: It's our responsibility to keep youth in schools

    During President Cyril Ramaphosa' address at the National Teaching Awards ceremony, he spoke about youth unemployment. #Ramaphosa #NTA

    268 days ago
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    There's an increase in stress, anxiety amongst SA teachers - psychiatrist

    Psychiatrist, Dr Alicia Porter, said that returning to the classroom placed further pressure on teachers, as some struggled with a lack of PPE, challenges in monitoring learners' compliance with the rules, fears of contagion and children being sent to school with COVID-19 symptoms.

    303 days ago
  • Teachers wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Pinelands Emergency Services site on 23 June 2021. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    WC vaccinates over 42,000 education staff members

    This equates to 76% of the 55,000 target.

    357 days ago
  • Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga oversees the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine jabs at the Rabasotho community hall in Tembisa on 23 June 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga to ask Health Dept for extension to complete teacher vaccinations

    The Basic Education Department said that while they initially targeted 582,000 people in the sector, they'd now added over 789,000 staff including food handlers, janitors and support staff from independent schools and ECD centres on the EVDS system.

    359 days ago
  • Teachers wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Pinelands Emergency Services site on 23 June 2021. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    ‘Jabs save lives’ - Gauteng Educ Dept alarmed as 9,000 teachers refuse vaccines

    The department said 9,113 employees in the sector, including those with comorbidities, had turned down their opportunity to receive their Johnson & Johnson jab.

    364 days ago
  • An education department employee gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Rabasotho community hall in Tembisa on 23 June 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    DBE: Vaccine programme for educators, support staff gaining momentum

    More than 230,000 educators and other staff have so far been inoculated since the drive was launched a week ago.

    366 days ago
  • Teachers wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Pinelands Emergency Services site on 23 June 2021. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Motshekga: Health Dept says there’s enough jabs for all education staff

    The minister on Tuesday gave an update on the sector’s response to COVID-19 under the stipulated alert level 4 of the lockdown.

    368 days ago
  • Image: © Chokniti Khongchum/123rf.com

    COVID-19 jab should've come much earlier for education sector, say some teachers

    From Wednesday, teachers and school staff in most parts of the country will be inoculated while those in the Western Cape will have to wait until Friday.

    374 days ago
  • Educators and school staff to be vaccinated over a 10-day period

    The Department of Health's Nicholas Crisp provided an update on the national vaccination rollout programme during a COVID-19 briefing on 18 June 2021. He outlined the special vaccination programmes that will target educators, police, military and correctional services.

    378 days ago
  • FILE: A classroom at the Ga-Rankuwa Primary School, north of Pretoria, on 26 May 2020. Picture: @Lesufi/Twitter.

    ANC MPs want teachers to be among the first to get COVID-19 vaccine

    But when schools reopen in February and when the first vaccines arrive, the ANC wants teachers to be prioritised like other frontline workers.

    528 days ago
  • FILE: The University of Oxford and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca have developed a COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: AFP.

    Basic Education Department: Teachers will not be forced to be vaccinated

    As essential workers, educators will be included in phase two of South Africa’s vaccine roll-out.

    536 days ago
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    ‘We are not invincible’ – Teachers fearful ahead of reopening of schools

    More than 1,600 teachers have died after contracting the virus since the pandemic hit our shores - that's more than double the number of health care workers and police officers combined.

    536 days ago
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    Teachers to return to classroom today but some raise COVID-19 safety concerns

    The Basic Education Department instructed all teachers granted concessions to work from home during the nationwide lockdown to report back to school on Monday.

    649 days ago
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    Gr 7s return to school, NASGB wants clarity on teachers with comorbidities

    There is renewed anxiety in the sector as thousands of pupils are expected back at school on Tuesday.

    690 days ago
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    2 KZN teachers suspended for allegedly having a relationship with pupil

    Both men are accused of being involved with the 18-year-old from Umlazi Comprehensive High School.

    698 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy President David Mabuza responding to oral questions in the National Assembly in Cape Town on 17 October 2019. Picture: @DDMabuza/Twitter

    Mabuza: Govt wouldn't allow children to return to school if lives were in danger

    Deputy President David Mabuza said that if the country had the infrastructure, learning and teaching would have started a long time ago online.

    756 days ago
  • Khangelani Sibiya. Picture: Supplied.

    SA teacher Khangelani Sibiya receives global teacher award

    Sibiya, who received the best global teacher award in Dubai at the weekend, said he reached over 25,000 pupils across the country.

    928 days ago
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