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Parents fear school’s redeployment mess NCEBA DLADLA
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EACHING at Coselelani High School in Motherwell ground to a halt this week as stakeholders of the school tried to deal decisively with the dreaded process of redeployment of
The school claimed they lost three valuable teachers through the process of redeployment last year and were told this year to expect to shed a further three of their teachers that were deemed in excess. Teaching at this NU9 Motherwell school has ground to a halt as the teachers, the School Management Team (SMT) and the School Governing Body (SGB) were locked in deliberations with the Department of Education in the Port Elizabeth District on the way forward. When PE Express Indaba visited the school on Monday there was no tuition. Teachers had locked themselves in a meeting with some parents while the executive committee members of the SGB and members of the SMT had visited the Education Department offices in town. According to school principal Nomakorinte Mfanta, the school registered 276 learners this year compared to the 239 of last year which she thought the Department might have used to come up with the idea of taking more teachers from their staff complement. “We are in a problem. This does not fit in terms of our workload. It is even difficult to make the timetable,” said Mfanta who started early this year as the school principal there. Unless this was overhauled, Mfanta feared for the school’s performance in the June examinations that were to start soon and the final exams later, she said. “We are not happy with the way redeployment of teachers is happening in our school. We feel it was incorrectly done,” said SGB Chairperson Zamile Futha.
Impoverished community members of the Grogro Township, near Kragga Kamma received much needed wheelchairs from the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) last week Tuesday, as part of their focused Corporate Social Investment (CSI). At the handover were Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Mayoral Committee Chairperson for Economic Development and Planning, Councillor Babalwa Lobishe (left) and Coega Develop ment Corporation corporate social investment (CSI) manager Thandi Rayi (right). Girlsie Sixaka (53) was one of the overjoyed recipients. Full story on page 5. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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