Eastern Cape education department is ‘cooking up a recipe for academic disaster’

Parents have shut down three schools in a bid to force the department to make good on ‘promises’ to fill vacant posts

02 May 2022 - 18:35

Angry parents shut down three schools in the Eastern Cape last week because the provincial education department has failed to fill vacant teacher posts...

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