Department blasted for importing Chinese teachers

The Department of Basic Education "has the nerve" to open a market for Chinese teachers when its own teachers remain unemployed, the SA Democratic Teachers Union said yesterday. At a press briefing in Durban, the union said its KwaZulu-Natal executive council had noted a newspaper article in which a "pronouncement was made, which is exactly what the union suspected, that there will be [an] import of teachers from China descending on the country to teach Mandarin.