KZN temporary teachers get better deal

Following a series of complaints about the payment for temporary teachers, the education department in KwaZulu-Natal has put a new system in place that is aimed at solving the problem. The department has been inundated with complaints from temporary teachers who said they had not received salaries for up to two months. Education MEC Ina Cronje says her Department would register temporary teachers at the beginning of each year and this will ensure that they are taken up in the system. Another measure has been the creation of more permanent posts, a move which has seen the number of temporary teachers shrinking from nearly 17-thousand to some five thousand.