National Education Health and Allied Workers challenges ANC

Imogen Vollenhoven
18January 2013

 The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union said that it supports the South African Democratic Teachers Union in dismissing the call by the African National Congress for Education to be declared as an essential service.

Nehawu said that the definition of an essential service pertains to areas that if disrupted, will affect the life and health of the country’s citizens.

Nehawu’s Sizwe Pamla explains that legally and constitutionally the proposal will fail the test and secondly the union says that it is not possible to legislate your way into efficiency and effectiveness.

Pamla says if the ANC want to sort out the crises in the education sector it needs a collective approach, it needs to engage and it needs to consult and it needs to stop unilateralism in the sector.

Pamla adds then only can it challenge the resources and put concrete and compressive programmes that can assist us in place.