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The South African Democratic Teachers Union on Tuesday staged a picket outside the KZN legislature to highlight the plight of the province’s teachers and learning following a R6.3bn budget cut.

Premier Sihle Zikalala and MEC for Education in KZN, Kwazi Mshengu, were present when the Sadtu leadership handed over the memorandum of understanding .

Commenting after the picket, Mshengu said the memorandum reinforced a call that his department had made regarding the cutting of their budget by a staggering R6.3 billion."We also need the funding to usher in quality education. The cut has affected the budget particularly for educators and we have schools that are not sufficiently staffed," Mshengu said.

He added that his department was unable to replace teachers who were on leave with substitute teachers and this impacted on teaching. "We are happy that the premier came out to receive the mou and committed that the government will urgently look into the matters so we can achieve stability in this sector," he said.

 

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