KwaZulu-Natal teachers protest over crowded classrooms
13 May 2016 - 18:49
About 650 teachers picketed at the KwaZulu-Natal education department’s head office in Pietermaritzburg on Friday‚ complaining about severe levels of overcrowding in the province’s schools. In one case at a rural school outside Nkandla‚ 120 pupils share a single classroom. Many township schools have more than 70 pupils per class‚ said South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) deputy secretary Bheki Shandu.
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